Did every single tax increase in the state pass yesterday?

[Bailey Guns]

If you aren't buying pot, it's not your money that is sitting in that $66 million. If you are buying pot then I understand caring about how that money is spent, because it's your money. If it's not your money, then what do you care how it's spent? Not your money, not your business.

This is exactly the type of logic(?) and reasoning(?) that put us in the fiscal mess we're in today. Talk about not getting it.

[Bailey Guns]

Colorado seems to have bucked the trend nationally. Conservatives had a HUGE day in the rest of the country. Even the one's that didn't hide their religion and other beliefs that are supposedly guaranteed to lose elections.

Yesterday was, once again, a perfect illustration of how conservatism wins.

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Colorado seems to have bucked the trend nationally. Conservatives had a HUGE day in the rest of the country. Even the one's that didn't hide their religion and other beliefs that are supposedly guaranteed to lose elections.

Yesterday was, once again, a perfect illustration of how conservatism wins.

I'd really like to know the story in DougCo. We've fought off the Dem/teacher's union three times in a row (IIRC). 82k ballots cast on the school board candidates. 225K registered voters (104K of those Republicans).

What happened?

Links...

http://www.douglas.co.us/elections/
http://results.enr.clarityelections....n/summary.html

[sroz]

Citizens just did not care enuf to fill out and drop off their ballots. This should have never happened.

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Missed the argument a few pages back...

All public money is fungible. Always has been/always will be. That's a problem in and of itself for various reasons but probably another thread.

Back in the day when we got sales tax rebates they were flat amounts based on household head counts (not dollars). The rebate had no relationship to how much in sales taxes you paid in the year. It was arbitrary and should be required.

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Citizens just did not care enuf to fill out and drop off their ballots. This should have never happened.

It's a stamp! 30 seconds to fill out the ballot. Maybe 5-10 minutes of research on candidates.

15 minutes + $0.49!!! (not mad at you)

[Calculated]

If you aren't buying pot, it's not your money that is sitting in that $66 million. If you are buying pot then I understand caring about how that money is spent, because it's your money. If it's not your money, then what do you care how it's spent? Not your money, not your business.

I'm not trying to pick on you, but I'm not getting anything special versus the renter's that aren't paying shit compared to what I'm paying in property taxes etc towards my county. We all drive on the same roads, our kids go to the same schools. Does that mean that people riding bicycles or driving electric cars shouldn't get to drive on public roads because they aren't paying fuel taxes? (I wouldn't mind no bicycles haha) Its our tax money. No matter how it gets put in to the pool. We should all reap all the rewards of our tax money.

There should be transparency, any registered voter should be able to physically count the ballots for any voting since it's "OUR" votes. Obviously black out the names or whatever, but why not?

Edit: I'd be willing to bet a large portion of potheads are renters...

[sroz]

It's a stamp! 30 seconds to fill out the ballot. Maybe 5-10 minutes of research on candidates.

15 minutes + $0.49!!! (not mad at you)

Didn't even cost me stamps. Swung by the DCSO substation and dropped off 4 ballots. And no, I didn't vote 4 times.

[sniper7]

Funny you bring up bicycles. at least electric cars are registered and do pay taxes and road and bridge fees. Bikes do not and I think that needs to change if they want to ride on the same roads as automobiles.

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Didn't even cost me stamps. Swung by the DCSO substation and dropped off 4 ballots. And no, I didn't vote 4 times.

Exactly! You know what's worth.

Next time I may have to drop mine off to make sure it gets there.