[goldstategop]

I'm afraid your state will stuck with a fiscal hangover like CA and voters will be hostile to fixing it. For good reason - those dependent on government want their benefits now and the common good be damned. Today's politics is about the present and planning for tomorrow is not something that gets politicians elected - and re-elected.

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

[george76]

Colorado will now have another wave of liberals moving to Colorado for free housing, free food, free health insurance, free schools, cheap University tuition, paychecks for life, free...

[ModelBreaker]

I'm afraid your state will stuck with a fiscal hangover like CA and voters will be hostile to fixing it. For good reason - those dependent on government want their benefits now and the common good be damned. Today's politics is about the present and planning for tomorrow is not something that gets politicians elected - and re-elected.

About the only good election news from Colorado yesterday is that Ref D failed. That would have adopted the Calif method of financing--borrow now, pay later. That makes it a little more likely that the dems will spend some of the money in Ref C on infrastructure (Ref D would have funded a lot of construction). It also removes one of the drivers the rats have designed to gut TABOR even further by making interest payments (ala Calif) start sucking up more and more of the general fund.