Posted on 03/23/2014 11:37:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Actually, this gets right down to the nitty gritty - they have stripped the veneer off what most politicians are about.
Thanks for the article.
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The new Coloradans will gladly repeal TABOR now. 92 was pre-Californication.
Throw it out, sanction them and embarrass them publicly.
Then what’s the point of laws? What’s the point of anything? TABOR is not the only limits I’m sure placed on legislative behavior and process. There are laws from how to get on the ballot, to election laws, legislative district map laws, to bribery, influence, and lobbying laws, other budgetary laws, bonding laws, property tax laws, legislative rules, rules of conduct, to the state constitution itself. Do we throw them all out too?
The people elect their legislators. They control the process. They therefore have the right to limit their legislative behavior as well.
Legalized slavery is what these DEMS are after.
Your work is measured in the wages you’re paid. When your wages are confiscated by taxation, you are forced to work for others at no compensation.
what a bunch of sore losers.
If they happen to “win” some short term “victory” in this scheme, they find 33 schemers in the ditch and NO Dem’s elected to ANYTHING in Colorado!
When you are hired, your employer tells you what your job is to be and how he expects you to do it. That’s how it works. If you don’t like it, tough. Leave, or be let go. Your choice.
Does anyone have a list of these 33 miscreants. No names in article.
Criminal..to have to pay any government taxes government in order to own a home, gun, food, car...that’s why the founders set up indirect taxation and the 16th amendment never overthrew that because they never properly rarified it, as Red Beckham exposed.
We have been run Ing on a criminal taxation system, and it is coming to a speedy end.
Your the only state in the UNION that has had the good sense to limit the power of politician to extort money from the people to be used by politicians to buy the votes of those trying to get their hands in the government cookie jar.
The state does not have the right to take any more money from the citizens than is necessary to fulfill the legitimate needs of the state.
Those needs do not extend to providing college education subsidies to non-citizens, providing financial incentives to private corporations to relocate to the state, providing welfare payments to non-citizens and a whole plethora of other illegitimate things that politician think are worthy redistributions of wealth.
We’re down to that IRS joke -
how much did you make?....send it in.
The communists....err...rats...really do think it’s all theirs. After all, we didn’t build that.
They want there hands on all that pot tax money.
The plaintiffs are listed at the bottom of this article: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_18118976
Interestingly, they are not all Dems, but they are all anti-taxpayer. The list does include FORMER state senator, John Morse.
The United States, and each state individually are not democracies....they are representative democracies where your representative votes in your place...your power exists in the right to elect the person who represents you. It would be an unworkable nightmare for the public to have the right to a direct vote on things like taxes. On the local level, the people do haVE SOME RIGHTS TO A SAY SO, BUT NOT ON THE STATE OF FEDERAL LEVEL. (wHOOPS) hit caps lock!
If the definition of slavery is a 100% income tax rate, then any lesser percentage is merely a matter of degree.
The only reason that Colorado was not on the verge of bankruptcy was that it had passed TABOR and had limited the expansion of government to the rate of inflation
These 33 idiots would rather their state be on the brink than have to live within the borders of what the people can be convinced is necessary spending.
They can’t even be bothered to pay attention to current national event and divine the simple lessons of their state’s recent history but they expect free reign over the financial affairs of their state and local governments. I think not.
OH WAAA, you voted me in but you won’t let me play with the money. Oh Boo Hoo, I want to spend your money.
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