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December 20, 2016 11:05 AM UTC
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As thousands of Coloradans hit the road and celebrate the holidays and New Year’s, thousands of Colorado’s public employees will be on the job over the holiday week.
Kudos to the state workers for doing their job. On the other hand, I live in Arvada and have been out and about last several days after the snow hit and almost none of the city streets were plowed, especially in subdivisions I was in.
Arvada has been giving away tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks, i.e. corporate welfare, to developers ( 8 million alone to build yet another Wal Mart), then the same city council had the gall to ask the voters to increase the sales tax to fix the streets (voted down, thank God for TABOR).
If you ask me, its time to drain the swamp here.
So you voted down a tax increase to "fix the streets" and you're mad as hell that the streets aren't fixed? I guess math wasn't your best subject in high school.
Math wasn't my best subject in high school, but this isn't algebra or calculus, just simple addition and subtraction you learn in grade school. Apparently the voters in Arvada can add and subtract also (unlike the City council) because they defeated the tax increase proposal by 55%.
Just call me old fashioned, but I think governments first responsibility is to maintain the infrastructure it owns (just like you're responsible for maintaining your car or home), instead of giving away millions in tax breaks to developers and connected special interests. If Wal Mart want to build a store, they can do it with their own money, not the taxpayers.
Local governments are highly dependant on sales taxes. Yes, Walmart shakes them down for some of that, but arvada still gets millions in net taxes more than if walmart goes to lakewood instead. So you cut off your nose to spite your face. Enjoy the potholes.
When there's a problem in government the knee jerk liberal reaction is to raise taxes to "fix" the problem and thus avoid the systemic misdirected policies that contributed to the problem in the first place. Perfect example of this is a city that boasts a shiny new taxpayer subsidized Wal Mart, while that city can't maintain or even plow its streets when it snows. I know most libtards are still in a state of shock and denial from the last election, but the dysfunction speaks for itself, and the fact is the voters saw it for what it was.
People are rejecting this liberal dogma in droves. That's why the Democratic party is now a minority party, and if it doesn't change its dogma (you would think the election would be a wake up call to do so) it will remain a minority party, and increasingly so.
No point arguing facts with a TABOR man. But I will bet you $1,000 that wal-mart is a net tax contributor to Arvada when sales taxes are factored in. Like most right wing nuts, you just want more services and lower taxes both. I also bet Arvada, like most burbs, has a republican majority on the council , though I know it is technically nonpartisan. Want to get together and check the books on walmart? It's always fun to deflate an ideologue. Assuming you won't dare do that, enjoy your potholes. You earned them.
You're giving me mental whiplash this morning, ally. Aren't streets a local issue? Is the Arvada City Council run by libtards or repubs?
I can't tell whether you're mixing apples and oranges (raging against local issues while opining on federal election results)?
So the party that is interested in maintaining infrastructure is generally a 'libtard' leaning party. We dominate national elections; we have a slave-era construct to overcome (clearly not impossible: 80,000 votes out of 130 million would have delivered a different outcome).
The new guy (elected by 3 million less than his opponent) is now being slapped back by the Senate Majority Leader on his infrastructure plan. (his counterpart-libtard wants an infrastructure bill).
People aren't 'rejecting' liberal dogma. At least not so en mass in Colorado.
"I live in Arvada…….and almost none of the city streets were plowed." Maybe you live in the wrong town. My short cul-de-sac in west Lakewood, and others in my general neighborhood, were plowed by the city within a few hours of the snow stopping.
Kudos to Lakewood then. A government that understands its responsibilities to provide basic and essential services to its residents is cognizant of its proper function.
You have a city council that's majority Republican. Take your beef to CPP. Maybe our pajama-boy Librarian or Pyrus can help you create a Pot Hole Thunk Tank over there.
Is that the past tense of a "think tank", or the past tense of when your car hits a pothole with a “thunk”?
Past tense. Maybe back to the 30's when pot holes weren't a 'thing' and a woman knew her place! #MAGA
Any real conservative would know that it's cheaper to properly maintain an asset than let it fall into disrepair. It's the equivalent of buying a new John Deere tractor and refusing to pay for the oil changes, deciding you'd rather pay for the (premature) overhaul. Therein lies the problem: none of them (C.H.B. not included) are authentic conservatives.
By the way, it's not just state employees who have to work holidays , so do a lot of city and county employees. They include my son in law, a Denver police officer who will try to keep some of those holiday cheer spreaders from killing themselves and innocent victims behind the wheel. Crime doesn't take holidays off so my idea os Christmas spirit is to be sure he wears his bullet proof vest.
Many folks work weekends and holidays while some are not. During the 30 years i practiced nursing I worked half or more. The first dozen or so of those years, without a child, I worked more than half so those with kids wouldn't have to. So, thank you to all the cops, firefighters, nurses, dispatchers, etc who are part of that club