Posted on 11/02/2011 6:59:13 AM PDT by tobyhill
Colorado’s Proposition 103, the biggest tax-increase proposal of the off-year November election, was headed to a sound defeat early Wednesday, an indication that voters still expect government to solve its economic woes with spending cuts instead of revenue increases.
The measure, which would have raised state sales and income taxes to fund education, was losing by a margin of 65 percent to 35 percent with 59 percent of precincts reporting.
The vote on Proposition 103 was being monitored closely nationwide as activists in other states contemplate their own tax-hike initiatives. Efforts to place tax increases on the 2012 ballot are already under way in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho and South Dakota.
Like many other states, Colorado swung strongly to the right in the 2010 elections, allowing Republicans to pick up the state House, two congressional seats, and all three statewide offices below the gubernatorial contest. They also came within 30,000 votes of unseating incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.
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So does this mean the Dems will instead call it a “fee on earning income” and not a tax, so they can ignore the vote?
This is good but if you look at the big picture, voters constantly vote for more spending and less taxes. These ballot measures need to be coupled together. Do you want less taxes AND an across the board, 10% government spending cut? Or do you want your free government benes, but it means a tax increase on YOU (not “the rich”) of 10% or 20%? That is how ballot measures should read.
Wow, those mean folks in Colorado wouldn't even do it "for the children"
Nope, we wouldn’t. hehe
Translation:
Liberal Voters (which is what Colorado is) say “No stupid, not our Money, take other peoples money and give it to us, we’re all for that ...”
They should just do an across the board spending cut. Everything on the block. If the voters squeal, just point at the results of the vote.
As always, the parasites would squeal and the normal, working American families would shrug.
This is good news, at least the voters seem to know that more taxation is not beneficial. Yet FReeper negativity seems to think otherwise?
It only narrowly passed in liberal Boulder County. It lost big in the rest of the state.
What the proponents didn’t realize was in this economic climate, people don’t want to spend more.
That’s why it went down. Tax increase measures face rough sledding in the rest of the country, even when they are marketed as being “all for the children.”
That gambit failed in CO.
GREAT IDEA!
They were wanting both a sales and income tax increase. If they would have picked one or the other, it might have had a chance, I dunno. Nobody wants to hear about more taxes right now especially to support a questionable product like public education.
I went to public schools. I think I received good value for it. But I don’t think schools should get everything they want. Certainly not in this kind of economy.
On the one hand this is encouraging.
On the other, nobody will readily vote to raise their own taxes.
If this proposal had been limited to raising taxes on those Eeeeeevil Grrrrrreedy Rich, I wounder what the result would have been?
GRRRRREAT news!
TEA
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Efforts to place tax increases on the 2012 ballot are already under way in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho and South Dakota.
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