When they're given a chance to vote, Americans don't like big government.
Last November 45 percent of the voters in the most liberal state in the Union, Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts, voted to abolish the state income tax.
In January, Oregon's liberal electorate rejected a proposed tax increase, 55 percent to 45 percent.
In September Alabama voters rejected Gov. Bob Riley's $1.2 billion tax hike by 2 to 1.
California voters tossed out big-spending Gov. Gray Davis, and 62 percent of them voted for candidates who promised not to raise taxes to close the state's deficit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20247-2003Nov28?language=printer
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