- Measures to abolish the income tax in Massachusetts and reduce tax rates in North Dakota were soundly defeated, but in Colorado voters decisively upheld the nation's strictest tax and expenditure limit.
- Arizonans defeated a proposal to require consent from a majority of registered voters to enact a local tax hike, but they passed a measure to ban property-transfer taxes.
- Minnesotans gave the nod to a 3/8-cent sales tax increase for outdoors and arts programs, but Coloradans nixed a 2/10-cent tax for aid to the developmentally disabled. In Florida, citizens gave a thumbs-down to a plan that would have provided localities greater latitude to propose sales taxes. Nevadans said "no" to allowing the state to make changes to sales and use tax laws without prior voter consent.
- In Maine, a measure to repeal taxes on alcoholic and other beverages passed by a 2 to 1 margin. A major hike in Colorado's severance taxes on oil and natural gas failed overwhelmingly.
- Although NTU was still gathering information, it appeared that many local-level tax increases were not passing. Meals taxes in Virginia and North Carolina were demolished, and special property taxes for emergency services in Alabama failed. Voters in five out of six Massachusetts municipalities rejected measures that would have overridden a strong property tax limit known as Proposition 2-1/2.
"It's been said that the 2008 election will prove transformational, but whatever happens next, voters have still brought a solid piece of the past with them," NTU Vice President for Policy and Communications Pete Sepp concluded. "Americans' traditional concern over how much money government should be able to take from their wallets remains alive and kicking at the polls."
