Bus tour touts constitutional reform

Why is the Alabama Constitution the world's longest constitutional document? Because of things like the proposed amendment that would allow the sheep and goat industries to pool money for a marketing campaign. (Given his unique interpretation of the US Constitution, Roy Moore will probably find it unconstitutional under Deuteronomy 22:9.) Auburn's Wayne Flynt says that the Alabama Constitution is doing exactly what it was designed to do. And what was that?

First, it stripped blacks and poor whites of voting rights, kept taxes low and concentrated power in Montgomery. Federal intervention restored voting rights, but the constitution's limits on taxation have kept Alabama's taxes the lowest per person in the nation. Its limits on local control still force local governments to seek constitutional amendments to make even basic changes. The constitution has been amended more than 700 times.

Some of you may like that "low taxes" thing, but what it comes to in the end is "regressive taxation", including ten percent sales tax in many areas.