Kansans tempted by the campaign for a Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) should keep an eye on Colorado, where voters decide today whether to take a five-year break from TABOR’s spending limits in an effort to fix that state’s budget nightmare. Denver’s mayor even parachuted out of a plane recently to draw attention to the state’s TABOR-related shortfalls. As Kansas Senate President Steve Morris, R-Hugoton, told The Kansas City Star, “The key lesson to be learned from Colorado is that they’re having a very difficult time fixing the problems TABOR created.”
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A plea to all Kansans:Take note of Colorado’s TABOR problems.
“Deficits don’t matter,” Dick Cheney, VP of the United States.
Really what he’s saying is that “reality doesn’t matter–ideology is what matters.”
Unfortunately, these are the people running our country.
You know we’re going to vote Tabor in for Kansas. The average Kansas voter will say, “Ugh, no tax increase, me vote for that!” I can’t wait for that turkey to come home to roost. Of course it won’t be as devastating for us as it is for Colorado on accounta we’re so much smarter. I can hardly wait till our roads get as crappy as Colorado’s.
from the Denver Post:
…as Colorado’s state treasurer in May pointed out, “total state spending never actually decreased in any year of the recession.” There is no Colorado budget crisis. In fact, the 2005-06 state budget is the largest in state history, with a 7 percent increase in appropriations to $15.2 billion. Under this budget, spending is up across the board, including K-12 education, where the general fund appropriation has grown by 12 percent since 2001.
XXX,
Indeed. In Colorado, highway engineers can’t be bothered to bank steep curves. Their roads are two-dimensionally flat regardless of the grade. It’s bizarre.