Posted on 10/30/2013 12:28:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants Colorado as his personal plutocracy and is willing to spend. If he succeeds, Coloradans will be subject to laws and politicians bought and controlled by an outside demagogue.
Bloomberg, the man who tried to control how his constituents consume soft drinks and salt, has never received a vote in Colorado. He has never lived here. Yet, he's paying for ads that tell Coloradans to spend their hard-earned wages on the Amendment 66 tax increase - a deceptive attempt to channel more than $1 billion a year to state government under the guise of helping children.
Few would vote for 66 if they knew what might happen to the money, which cannot be protected from pressure to backfill the state's financially troubled Public Employees' Retirement Association. To fool the masses, proponents are spending more than $10 million on ads that talk about bringing back gym class and hiring more teacher aides for a measly $133 per taxpayer. It's simple and sly. We all favor better education for kids.
The "Yes on 66" campaign filed reports Monday that show a $1.05 million contribution from Bloomberg and an additional $1 million from Bill and Melinda Gates.
Bloomberg and other Big Left contributors tried to defeat the recalls of Colorado Senate President John Morse and state Sen. Angela Giron, outspending combined recall campaigns at least 6-to-1. In their battle to impose new taxes with 66, they may outspend opponents by 10-to-1 or more.
With net worths of $31 billion and $72 billion respectively, Bloomberg and the Gates couple have the means to control Colorado if money buys its elections. Combined, these three activists could throw $1 million into a Colorado campaign every day for nearly 300 years without earning another dime. Given the fact they earn millions a day in interest, no reasonable limits apply to what they could spend buying future elections if this effort pays off.
Only voters can stop their power grab from working.
We don't resent the well-deserved fortunes of Bloomberg and the Gates family, who are free to spend as they choose. Yet, their willingness to buy votes does not obligate anyone to sell. Watch the ads and understand their deceptive nature. Enjoy the fact this out-of-state money circulates through Colorado's economy. Take the money, vote "no" and send a message that Colorado voters are not for sale.
Gov. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., has naively thrown his support behind the tax hike. In doing so, the governor has worsened a growing credibility issue.
Only two weeks ago, Hickenlooper urged out-of-state gun control activists (read: Bloomberg) to stay out of Colorado elections.
"Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems," Hickenlooper told USA Today. "They don't really like outside organizations meddling in their affairs . "
Despite this advice, Hickenlooper thanked Bloomberg and the Gates family for meddling in Amendment 66.
"Our deep thanks go to Bill and Melinda Gates, Mayor Bloomberg, and all of our Colorado donors for supporting Amendment 66," Hickenlooper said in a written statement.
The tax increase is not what advocates claim and will hurt Coloradans. When researchers for Denver's Channel 7 did the math, they found Amendment 66 would cost Coloradans earning $40,000 a year an additional $148 in taxes. Those earning $75,000 would pay an additional $278, and at $100,000, the measure would impose annual new taxes of $595.
These taxes, of course, wouldn't phase Bloomberg and Gates - even if they had to pay them. For Coloradans struggling to support children, Amendment 66 poses an enormous burden without meaningful guarantees the money will reach classrooms. Don't let out-of-state celebrity billionaires impose this suffering on a state they seldom even visit. Vote "no" on Amendment 66.
Yes. In my part of CO, too (on the Range), the new socialist efforts to establish more corruption are coming mostly from people who are originally from the northeast.
BTW, most of those from California only visited there for a generation or so after their families moved from the northeast. Then, they invaded CO.
Evie Hudac is from NYC. A lot of the bad players in California politics came from NYC decades ago. I welcome conservatives from any part of the planet. Progressives are not Welcome here, we have plenty already.
From what you are saying my guess is that you work on BMW’s because we have one and that “cabin filter” is fun to get at.
For some time now a lot of folks here on FR have gotten into this “let’s blame this state or that” for the creeping infection that is Socialism/Marxism. While there is no question that California has an over abundance of “fellow travelers,” the “old guard Bolsheveks” are, for the most part from someplace other than here. It is also undeniably true that Californians have been migrating back eastward, a lot of them trying to escape any number of problems California is facing including Liberal Lunacy. And I would hazzard a guess that they are divided between liberals and conservatives. Sadly, while Pelosi and Boxer are East Coast “transplants,” Fineswine and Jerry Brown are home-grown San Franciscans.I had never thought about Wisconsin though.
But the issue for conservatives should be to fight them everywhere. and not move away and give up the ground. We should not be pitting one state against another, but rather be figuring out how to dislodge them from office. I am reveling at what is happening with Obama. The snowball of defeat has crested the hill and is headed downward picking up both mass and speed. I don’t think FUBO will survive what he’s done. The health care mess is something that even people who voted for him can see for the disaster that it is.
Well said. Agreed.
The gun and money grabbers are nothing but a reflection of what’s in the electorate.
(They will continue to be vote for Progressives who will “fight” the evil, mean, greedy, small-minded, Christian, bible-thumping morons in flyover country.) /s/
IMHO
We don't??? How can a person try to pay off idiots to vote for tyranny over me and other good people deserve anything other than a lamppost and a rope?
There is a reason Wisconsin turned red at the exact same time Colorado turned blue. A big chunk of Madistan moved here.
I actually work on Toyota and Lexus. Since 1980. I did warranty work on the very first Toyota 4x4 trucks (1979) that had a one year warranty.
I don’t know CO law, but here in CA you have to reregister your car within 30 days of becoming a resident””””
Almost every state has such a time frame for re-registering your vehicles & getting a new driver’s license.
That doesn’t mean there are not lots of cheats.
ya i am sure they do, but they come here and scew it up worse then calif is already
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