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June 01, 2011 08:24 PM UTC

New Video Aims to Spark Conversation on State Budget

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  • by: TheBell

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

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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26 thoughts on “New Video Aims to Spark Conversation on State Budget

  1. in calling for Coloradans to have an “adult conversation” while simultaneously posting an animated, cartoon video as the starting point?  

      1. 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.

          1. 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.

            1. 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.

    1. 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.

  2. 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 whores followers).

    Amendment 23 is no longer any part of the problem since the legislature has determined that they can reduce education funding anyway.

    1. 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…

  3. 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.

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