AT THE END OF MAY in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, with the vote in California a week way, two hundred activists met at a National Tax Limitation Conference. An aide for one of sponsors, the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization controlled by Paul Weyrich that wrote conservative “model legislation” for state legislators to introduce, described tax limitation as the perfect issue to build a broader conservative movement—to organize discontent: “It crosses all philosophies. Everybody is concerned with the increase in taxes.”
