Would State Budget Cap Pinch Like Colorado's? (L.A Times Slams TABOR Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 10/23/05 | Evan Halper

[pepperdog]

Is he still around? How disgusting! Hopefully he is only being paid and not allowed to teach his lies and subversion.

[Red Boots]

I'm not sure of his teaching status, but it appears that the taxpayers of Colorado will have to pay for his sorry butt forever!

[BIRDS]

Well, yes, of course, that first. But for elderly sitting around in boxes on the streets or otherwise living in deprivation in the U.S., without any family to aid and assist -- or available to do so -- society can at least devote a hand to help.

I don't exclude aid and assistance to the impoverished who have no means to help themselves. It's not an indication of a healthy culture, I agree, but it's a reality that some individuals will always fall into terrible circumstances, despite their best intentions. We as a society can at least provide a minimum of effort to help their final years.

I DO draw the line at not evaluating income in the mix. The days of the senions in big ole' motor homes and fine homes using taxpayer dollars to avoid touching their own resources is out, as far as I'm concerned.

[indianrightwinger]

Liberal Editorial disguised as a news story. Pathetic as always. Yawn.....

[Zman516]

The real problem in Colorado, which the LA Times didn't mention, is that Amendment 23 was passed in 2000 by the idiot voters who were bamboozled by the huge amount of money poured into the campaign by the Teacher's Union. Amendment 23 forces the state to keep jacking up the amount of money spent on K thru 12 education, regardless of the revenues collected. That is the major factor in the shortages for other state funded programs.

Owens is caught between Amendment 23 and the reality of having to fund the rest of the state budget.

AMENDMENT 23 MUST BE REPEALED!!!!

[goldstategop]

If that sounds familiar to Californians its cause we have Proposition 98. I've never understood why education of all the programs in the world, should be exempt from normal budget processes.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")