Taxes run feast or famine. What Colorado Springs does time and time again is in feast years they buy all sorts of infrastructure which requires maintenance (parks, vehicles, etc.). Then in famine years they complain about not having enough money to maintain all the new toys they bought.

This tax increase is "required" because they bought too many new toys over the last couple of years which pulled money away from roads.

Now my prediction: Over the next couple of years the monies for roadwork from the general fund will gradually decrease, negating the effect of the tax increase. This will result in excess funds for Colorado Springs to buy its next new toy: The City for Champions development.

Lather, rinse repeat.

I knew Suthers was a RINO from years ago.

O2