Reagan Man, I live in Denver and I have no clue how the politicians are going to use our money. How can you be so sure they're going to fix our infrastructure? Let me guess...just trust them. Passing Ref C just gave all these pork bellied politicians in CO a $3.2 billion check with money that was to be refunded to hard working taxpayers. You say there won't be any tax increses because C passed, but all C really does is create a back-door tax increase. You definitely don't do your screen name any justice by buying into that "its not a tax increase" garbage. The state owes me money, er owed me money, and now they just get to keep it to spend it on "infrastructure". You're being a bit naive to think that this is a one-time deal as well. Politicians will see this vote as an opportunity to bail themselves out of their reckless free-spending ways for generations to come, or at least until voters wake the hell up.
Yep, the roads suck now & they'll suck five years from now. I used to like Gov. Owen's but I will never support him for any future political runs.
The liberals will now be back more often with more spending ideas. Just wait until next year.
This C will just give them more encouragement. More dope to the dopers.
Colorado was doing ok until Scott McInnis left and Owens gave up.
Ref C is going to be used for anything and everything - whatever you want, don't ya know?
It was truly disgusting how the pro C people were using alarmist tactics to persuade people to vote for it.
This is the point noone managed to get over to the voters. When C was being formulated, the rats were asked, no begged, to insert provisions in C committing the funds to roads, bridges, schools etc. They allowed only a non-binding, wishy-washy, statement of intentions.
Of course, the reason they would not commit is that they control the legislature and have no intention of spending the money on sensible stuff. If they did, then they wouldn't have any reason to come back to the voters in a few years and ask for more money for roads, bridges, schools etc.
>>>>You definitely don't do your screen name any justice by buying into that "its not a tax increase" garbage.
In 1981, PresReagan signed into law a 25% across the board tax cut. In subsequent years Reagan raised taxes for various reasons. Some of those reasons Reagan supported and some he didn't. In this case, the people of Colorado have decided to be pro-active and not wait for the necessity of crippling budget cuts and maybe even tax hikes a few years down the road. To be more precise, Ref C doesn't raise tax rates on Colorado workers. You believe the $300-$500 that Coloradans are allowing the state to keep over the next five years is a tax increase. Fine.