Did every single tax increase in the state pass yesterday?

[Great-Kazoo]

State tax revenue is always collected from a wide variety of areas including personal income, business income, sales revenue or tourists dollars. Anytime taxes are collected in excess of the state budget, it is returned. As long as the state of CO has been returning this money it has always been given equally to all the residence who filed a tax return. We all know that not everybody even pays tax. So the argument that only those who paid the tax should get the refund has and will always fall on deaf ears.

I always vote to return the money because governments needs to live on a budget like the rest of us. I think any time they get to keep and spend more than was budgeted just rewards them for their own shortcomings. I would have voted for them to keep the money if they could have earmarked it for a specific issue in need like roads or to shore up PERA's unfunded liability. But as always two years from now they will come to the voters asking for more money for things they say they are going to fix with this money.

As an example, I challenge anybody to name a recent election year that we didn't vote on more money for schools. It was only about three or four elections back that we passed a state wide amendment that put significant annual school funding increases on auto pilot, regardless if the money was available or not. People are starting to realize I'm right when I say "If we are having an election then school funding is on the ballet somewhere". It gets old and no amount of increase is ever enough for them to stop asking for more.

IIRC last in season / presidential election 33 ( state school tax increase) was shot down big time.

[Big E3]

^^^I think your are right, but more "money for the children" was on the ballet.

[Skip]

The anti-union people (incumbents) didn't spend any money, while the pro-union folks spent money like the fools they are. I probably got 20-30 pieces of mail in favor of the pro-union candidates, at least 5 phone calls, and multiple people coming door-to-door - not to mention the various cars driving around town....

The incumbents - I got one mailing, which had pictures of their competition on it. Very strange.

You're right... I got the flyer in the mail. I saw one commercial. That's it.

You must be registered independent to get so much love from the Dems.

Conservatives have to be smarter than that.

[screagle2]

I didn't care about how much money I got back or how much it cost to send my money back to me. I cared about the principle, the principle being that money belongs to the citizens and voting yes on BB affirms the govenment's idea that all money belongs to the government.

It is those that only care if the action directly affects them, that contribute to our ever decreasing rights.
i agree with you 100%