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Colorado’s budget. It’s about time for some adult conversation.
After three years of cutbacks, cutting funds for K-12 and higher education, closing state parks and a prison, more people than ever are asking questions about state finances and our fiscal challenges.
Seems like the perfect time for video offering a simple (maybe even entertaining) overview of Colorado’s budget …
… And that’s the thinking behind Colorado’s Budget: In Plain Talk, produced by the Bell Policy Center and ProgressNow Colorado. It’s a six-minute video that uses broad strokes to paint a picture of how the state gets and spends its money.
We think that’s what Coloradans are hungry for right now — a basic understanding of the budget. That’s the first step. After that, conversations can start.
Those conversations are important. In Colorado, it is voters, not legislators, who make the major decisions about taxes and fiscal policy. Our state constitution requires it.
So, we invite Coloradans to watch Colorado’s Budget: In Plain Talk, and then, let the conversations begin.
And there is another tool out there for learning about the budget, where we are as a state and where we could be headed — www.boomorbustcolorado.com. The site offers more detailed information about a variety of issues affected by the state’s fiscal problems. Check it out.
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in calling for Coloradans to have an “adult conversation” while simultaneously posting an animated, cartoon video as the starting point?
are old enough to vote, we’ll have some political leadership on some of these issues?
After all the time I’ve spent at the Capitol, it makes sense to me!
the quality of our public education system, I’d say it’s well-targeted.
although this former northerner never heard of a Hoosegow before.
When you want to take more of someone’s money and convince them they want you to do it, it’s best to treat them like children.
since pooling resources is so sophmoric to you. Do you know how stupid you sound sometimes ?
He’s doesn’t even know how to hit the Reply button. Let’s try and lower our expectations, shall we?
I thought I would start with a fresh line.
When you lie, at least try, will you?
I thought it was cute as well as true. Tough crowd.
But if I wanted to, I could be as big an asshole as you are!
Feel better? With your persuasion powers, selling this regressive job destroying tax increase should be no prob. None at all.
all those progressive job producing tax cuts, huh?
After ten years, it will just feel like a tax hike to you too.
collaborative efforts are for pussies, you lone eagle you
How so?
Or do you just like the sound of the word?
Meaning they tend to target lower income earners for a higher percentage of their income, due to spending and saving habits of low vs. high income earners.
In short, Sen. Heath proposed a tax increase that hits the poor hardest. In this regard the other proposal from the liberal fiscal policy thinktank was less severe, although it was so much worse on wealthy earners that it would have been far worse for the economy in general.
You’re for progressive taxation?
No flat tax for you? Eliminate sales tax and just tax income with a progressive tax?
Congrats. I think you’re the first conservative I’ve ever encountered who supported progressive taxation.
If you’re serious, you will either address the issue or admit you don’t know. The last two times it came up, you ignored the question.
An ‘adult conversation’ should not be afraid to give some real numbers. This video is unimpressive.
I like animations.
I like simplified, accurate, presentations f complicated material.
But I don’t own a cowboy hat. I am not especially enamored of Colorado’s mythical wild west past (see esp Ludlow, Sand Creek, and all the anti-gov’t federally subsidized ranchers and extractors and military camp
whoresfollowers).Amendment 23 is no longer any part of the problem since the legislature has determined that they can reduce education funding anyway.
Projects are difficult when you want someone else to pay for it.
Fund it yourself and it gets done overnight.
What do you propose a private entity might want to fund itself? And, if you simply propose that a whole bunch of citizens get together and form an association to get something done, please distinguish this from having the government do it…
Efficient, effective education is valuable. Consumers would purchase education absent government.
The Fed and State is not an effective tool for delivering education.
At minimum, move education to County level.