Posted on 03/27/2005 10:53:33 AM PST by HostileTerritory
DENVER--Governor Bill Owens, a Republican, has been crisscrossing the country for years promoting the virtues of this state's strict constitutional limits on government spending. He has repeatedly urged other states to adopt restrictions of their own, based on Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights amendment, known as TABOR.
But this summer, Owens says, he will traverse his own mountainous state pushing the opposite message. Midway through his second term, Owens is working to persuade Coloradans to suspend the limits he championed and let the state government spend $3 billion more in tax money than TABOR would allow.
Owens thus becomes another low-tax, limited-government advocate who has found those principles hard to hold onto amid a sluggish economy and a sharply diminished flow of federal money to the states.
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Or maybe he has national ambitions and is trying to appeal to the "moderates."
Not-Terri-Schiavo BTTT
I've got to wonder if anyone but hard-core Democrats is pleased by tax hikes. Moderates don't like taxes any more than conservatives.
I guess I can scratch another one off my list for '08.
But moderates like big govt. You need to have more taxes for big govt.
I remember when "us republican" decried spending increases, tax increases and deficit spending. Or was that just a dream????
Terri's going to win in 08.
That was just a dream
I think we need to figure out how many years of "shelf life" Republican pols have before they turn rotten and end up being like Democrats. Then vote out any Republican who is past his due date.
Her position on dividend tax rates is a deal-breaker. Also, if what her parents allege is true, I really don't think she'd support covenant marriage.
THE REAL PROBLEM is that these pols, repubs and leftist Dems alike, just cannot seem to grasp the CONCEPT OF REDUCING GOVERNMENT SPENDING. It totally evades their thinking -- amazing how that works -- so when the economy softens, THEIR SPENDING DOES N-O-T !!!!
So the logical answer, IS JUST INCREASE TAXATION. Tax them out of existence, no problem..the next guy in office can worry about that, RIGHT ??? Stinking politicians.
D@mn RINOs.
These people are worthless, pandering, ideological traitors to the real GOP.
Real conservatives have no alternative but to seriously form a Third Party.
No mention on what it would be for, just red meat to get you mad.
I think they are the real GOP. Can you, or anyone else, name any Republican elected official anywhere who, once in office, has actually lowered spending? That is opposed to slowing the growth of spending which is all that Reagan and others were able to do. I don't think the ex-Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, was able to do that. He was a RINO though, as is Ron Paul, a Libertarian running as a Republican.
And the public needs the expenditure of $3 billion for exactly what purpose?
In real life, there is no limit to the problems that are caused when Republicans and drunken sailors spend like Democrats.
Because politicians have a conflict of interest with limited govt. That is why we had a Constitution. Both the executive and legislature had a party when judges threw it out, because they didn't want to do it themselves. Then they could blame the unelected and appointed for life judges. It is a great game in Washington. I feel sorry for the idiots who get caught up in Republican-Democrat fights not realizing that at their core both parties are the same pro-govt parties.
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