Posted on 09/26/2005 3:36:11 PM PDT by george76
Supporters have repeatedly claimed that the $3.7 billion the State plans to collect under Referendum C will be used exclusively to fund health care, public education, transportation, and local fire and police pensions.
The reality is that restrictions on where the additional tax revenue can be spent are meaningless.
Money is fungible – that is, it can easily be transferred from one program to another.
There is no guarantee that any of these funding priorities will receive additional resources and not be used on politicians’ pet projects.
Penn Pfiffner is with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, CUT. CUT is having their annual breakfast Saturday, October 15, 2005 to award their tax champions in the CO House and Senate. These would be the Senator and Representative who voted to keep taxes low compared to others in the same house. John Fund of the Wall Street Journal will be their keynote speaker. If anyone is interested in attending, the cost is $20 per person and let me know if you want more information.
LaPlata, Archuleta and Montezuma counties in SW CO.
All this junk is being MAILED to "the citizens"...yeah, we do the mailing too.
If anyone in these counties gets their "hand-dandy" booklet, please contact me and tell me what they read made any freaking sense to them!
What a load!!!
VOTE NO!
FMCDH(BITS)
Already planned to vote no. If something seems to good to be true, it always is.
I will never vote for cloaked tax increases.
Is there a Colorado ping list?
http://www.backboneamerica.net/
I'm voting no but I think it will pass, Owens really has me ticked at him for supporting it.
I'm right there with ya.
For those not in Colorado, TABOR is the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. It requires any new or increased taxes to be voted on by the public. What referendum C & D do is require the legislature to fund certain pet political projects (read: liberal school programs) at a certain level, starving other public services. This is a measure brought to us by the CEA, the state level NEA. They continue to demand more and more money for "education", all the while spending it on administrative overhead. Little, if anything, ever makes it to the classroom.
Ref C & D are nothing but a means for the politicians to get the funds they want for their pet projects without asking to raise taxes. C & D steals money away from other programs because TABOR requires a fixed budget. There is only so much money and these turkeys want to gather the money for themselves. What will happen is that other needs will starve and the politicians will demand that TABOR be removed or that taxes be raised. Removing TABOR has been a goal of theirs since voted in.
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