Posted on 11/03/2005 9:15:31 AM PST by george76
Republicans, Democrats Disagree On What To Do With Money
One day after voters agreed to let the state keep an extra $3.7 billion in taxes...Democrats and Republicans were already disagreeing on how to spend it.
GOP Gov. Bill Owens said the money should be used to shore up transportation, fix crumbling schools, hold down college tuition increases and strengthen police and fire pensions.
Democrats said the state should restore Medicaid programs and ...
Referendum C suspends the tax limits in the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, a constitutional amendment, for five years, allowing the state to keep money that otherwise would have been refunded to taxpayers.
Owens acknowledged the campaign caused a deep rift between him and conservative Republicans who opposed the budget fix, but ...
Owens said Colorado opponents, including Jon Caldara, head of a conservative think tank in Golden, were big losers in Tuesday's election, despite their claims they won a partial victory by convincing voters to reject Referendum D.
Owens said by killing Referendum D, voters allowed lawmakers to decide how to spend the money.
"Why on earth do they think it's a victory?" he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
A Pile of Money to politicians is like a Pile of S!#@$ to a fly...........
More money for the arts, and medicare, and illegal aliens...
Every politician who wants to suspend the taxpayers' Bill of Rights should be recalled and prosecuted... Democrats and Republicans equally...
All of which we would do well to avoid.........
Every war that has ever been fought was fought for the same reason: Whoever wins gets to collect the taxes.........
Memo to Owens - We DON'T think its a victory. And no, the wounds will not heal.
That man makes me livid. Glad to see him term limited.
Some wish he could run again, so that they could vote against him.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We're Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Is it my imagination, or are schools ALWAYS referred to as "crumbling"?
Yes, Crunbling ...as in send us all your money.
Governor Owens, how on earth did you turn into such a loser.
Don't blame the politicians. As the article states:
One day after voters agreed to let the state keep an extra $3.7 billion in taxesThieves will always outnumber the honest in a pure democracy. And this was the will of the thieves.
If this country ever had a national referendum in which the following was proposed:
Shall we enslave 10 percent of the working population so that 90 percent can do without work.It would pass easily with somewhere close to 90 percent of the vote. We have completed the process of becoming a society of two wolves and one sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Liberty is that sheep with a gun.
BF
Largest tax increase ever for Colorado, I do believe. REPUBLICAN governor Bill Owens, the RINO.
A few years ago Bill Ownes was against this bill. After some campaign bucks and a federal run for office was handed his way, he changed his tune to being a Tax & Spend RINO.
Owens also ended his political career as a Republican.
He could have been a Senator last year.
I personally believe he is going for President.
He will not get money, time, effort, nor support from many/most Colorado Republicans. He has lost his grassroot base.
He lost the conservative and the moderate Republicans.
It is not just C & D...He has been drifting way left for too long. What does he stand for?
In 2004, he and the party lost almost every open state and federal ( McInnis and Campbell's seats ) race...and lost the state House and the state Senate.
But I get your point. He may think he is going to the middle to get ready for a Presidental run.
He does not communicate with his base. Neither he nor his staff return telephone calls, emails, snail mails...
True, so true. He may WANT to, but I doubt after any level of consideration by the RNC that he will get the support of the party.
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