It would, for starters, require public votes on all new taxes and tax increases, as well as on the elimination of any existing tax deductions. That's a nearly impossible, not to mention cumbersome, standard. Should a state regulatory board want to raise the fee for a hair dresser's license, for example, a statewide vote would be required. Stilley also wants to make it harder for the state to collect delinquent taxes from scofflaws. No lawsuit yet challenges Stilley's proposal.
Time is short.
He claims enough signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot, but continues to seek more under the assumption that some signatures might be invalidated. A used car tax repeal would have broad popular support, absent a well-financed campaign to explain the shortcomings. The timing is terrible for the common good. A constitutional amendment meant to take the steam out of the property tax repeal movement, if passed, will decrease revenues through a homestead tax exemption and a cap on tax increases from reappraisals. Gov. Mike Huckabee has another ballot measure to obligate new money from the tobacco lawsuit settlement to health issues.