OPINION | Don't trust politicians' latest attempt to tinker with TABOR

As Coloradans consider Proposition CC and the fate of our Taxpayer Bill of Rights this November, we should bear in mind the lessons of Novembers past.

In 2005, voters were promised that if the state were allowed to keep the excess revenue that should have been refunded to taxpayers under TABOR, the money would be used to boost education spending. Referendum C was approved, but the money never made it to the classroom. “Spending on programs not associated with Referendum C has grown more than twice as fast as spending on education and health care,” former state Treasurer Mark Hillman noted in 2007.

So why should we trust the politicians this time, especially now that they are considering a special legislative session to make changes to a proposition they approved only a few months ago?

Clearly, backers of Prop CC are worried that voters have caught on to their game, so have floated the possibility of substituting a 5- or 10-year “timeout” for voters to consider instead of the outright elimination scheduled to be voted on in less than four months.

TABOR was designed to prevent lawmakers from raising taxes without the consent of the voters. Using a formula of population growth and inflation, TABOR requires the government to return to taxpayers surplus revenues that exceed a fluctuating limit.

It’s a flexible system that provides the state more than enough revenue. But every year, lawmakers shift hundreds of millions of dollars that are supposed to go to school districts to other programs. Now, having created artificial spending “gaps,” they want to fill them by gutting TABOR instead of making the hard choices they were elected to make.

“Figure don’t lie, but liars figure”...So the old saying goes...

And none better described than the Commierado legislature and our Commie poofter governor...Just itching to get their hands on another pot of taxpayer money to hand out in exchange for votes...So what else is new?

We have Denver City Council members elected who promise us Colorado will be a Socialist state “by any means possible”...Not a promising future...

Colorado does not have a revenue problem...It has a spending problem and it’s (as usual) spelled Democrats! The takers and fakers outnumber the makers now...There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in this state!

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Patriots are reminded that the Constitution expressly guarantees each state a republican form of government.

"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

Based on my limited knowledge of Colorado state government's disappointing compliance with the state's TABOR law, corrupt Colorado government seems to be oppressing its citizens with taxation without representation. And if such is the case, then Colorado is violating the Constitution's guarantee of republican form of government for each state imo.

H O W E V E R…

Regardless, of constitutional guarantee of republican state governments, we're still stuck with a worthless Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration that will predictably continue to ignore its constitutional duty to make punitive laws that discourage state actors from denying a given state's citizens a republican form of government.

The remedy for constitutionally failed federal and state governments…

All patriots in the country need to come to the rescue of Colorado citizens, and the citizens of other states likewise being oppressed by their respective states, by doing the following.

Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT's vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also do this.

The new patriot Congress also needs to promise to do it's constitutionally enumerated duty to make punitive laws that discourage renegade state governments like Colorado from denying its citizens a republican form of government.

And to make such changes permanent, patriots also need to support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)

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