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December 02, 2008 08:46 PM UTC
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But we can’t afford not to.
that tax increases of any kind are always bad, even though they are needed and actually quite reasonable.
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And whose bright idea was it to call Severance User Fees “severance taxes ?”
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The payments by corporations to citizens for the use of public resourses.
It looks like they had an editorial board meeting and passed the sheet of paper around the table. Everybody got to add a sentence at the bottom.
is that their opinion is two-fold: (a) that we need to raise severance taxes, and (b) that they can always pull some agreement from their readers by harping on the “government should be more careful with taxes” line. Since the severance taxes failed by overwhelming margins, they felt the need to focus on point (b) where their readers agree with them.
Amendment 58 failed because of three factors: nearly $11 million from industry poured into the campaign against it; in a down economy, it’s really, really hard to pass any tax increase, and the proposed use of the money didn’t make sense to many voters.
The editorial, however, is at best confused.
It failed because you can’t use both the excuse that you’d like to raise taxes to benefit the State, and then “oh, by the way, we’ve already decided to spend all the additional revenue we raise”.
because it was horribly written, and it was on the ballot with a bajillion other things.
But you’re right that the millions spent by Big Oil against it didn’t help them much either.
The $11 million successfully convinced voters that the increase in taxes would be passed on to the consumer.
on the other hand, having said that — and for good reason — with forethought and consensus. Come to think of it, perhaps, differently than in the past, for a year, probably.
Is that you?
Isn’t this the same Denver Post that came out against #58??!!?? I agree that we need to bring Severance taxes in line with other states and feel this is a revenue stream that has been overlooked in the governments rush to raise new revenues. But what is the Post trying to say? They want it both ways.
Maybe the other Bob, who’s Marilyn as well.
…and they start writing gibberish like this. Do you think they outsourced editorials to India already?
And I think Indian writers would have been more coherent. This piece sounds like they outsourced it to a 3rd grade class at the last place CSAP school.
to that poor third-grade class!
by Dan Haley and David Harsayni. Dean Singleton must be proud.
I mean, is that the stupidest editorial ever written?
It doesn’t even qualify as an editorial. Don’t they normally take a firm position on something?
remember that endorsement of GW Bush in 2004? That was more nonsensical and contradictory that even this mess! They are just sticking to their standards.
Next to Brown v Topeka, Roe is the most famous contemporary Supreme Court decision. The Denver Post editorial board got it wrong. The Post said that the Court declared a fetus in the third trimester is a person. This is wrong and bizarre. BE, to his shame, defended the factual error.
On that scale, this editorial is only stupid.