David Gamage Thinks States Can Circumvent ‘Tax Increase Limitations

State Tax Notes, December 21, 2011 by David Gamage and Darien Shanske
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1974886

Our key analytical observation is that TILs insert two conceptually vacuous notions ­ ‘tax’ and ‘increase’ ­ into the fiscal constitutions of the states that have them. It is at least in part because this combination is incoherent that TILs do not work.