Should Maine voters be given the privilege to say yes or no to state tax increases levied on them by their state government? a citizen’s initiative appearing on the ballot for the November 2009 scheduled statewide election asks Maine voters to decide this very question by proposing that their state government should adhere to a certain formula based on population and inflation to prepare state tax increases then having those tax increases sent to voters for their final approval or disapproval in a referendum during a general or statewide election. Although, I feel this piece of citizen legislation has the well-intention goal of advancing more direct democracy for Maine people on state taxation issues, I must still write to say I oppose this bill and urge all Maine voters to the same because the bill should have been written by its author or authors to take a less complicated approach to giving all Maine voters a greater say on state tax increases by asking voters only if they want to amend (Article Five, Part Three, Section 17.1) of the Maine Constitution to provide a section to that law that spells out a special people’s veto process for enacted state tax increases that includes a less stringent quota for the number of signatures needed to get a people’s veto measure on the ballot for such tax matters without mandating that the state government follow certain formulas for raising state taxes; currently,(Article Five, Part Three, Section 17.1) of the Maine Constitution requires that petitioners seeking a people’s veto vote on any piece of current session enacted legislation must gather a number of registered Maine voters signatures equal to an amount of ten percent or more of the voters who voted in the last election for governor; a rewritten simplified citizen’s bill could only ask voters if they would want to lower that percentile to just five percent instead of ten thereby making it easier to put a citizen bill on the ballot to veto any state tax increase.