Referendums C & D are a Problem

REASON I

THERE IS NO "CRISIS" IN STATE GOVERNMENT FINANCING. THE SOLUTION IS TO BALANCE WHERE THE FUNDS GO. Financing for K-12 is robust and actually will be growing too fast as Amendment 23 takes the lions share of funds, and takes away from higher education. The Legislature has almost no control over how higher-ed spends their funds. The state provides less than 10% of the funding for CU.

REASON II

REFERENDUM C WILL EFFECTIVELY KILL TABOR (Taxpayers Bill or Rights) - POSSIBLY FOREVER. Every Colorado household of four will be stripped of an estimated $1,458 over five years, and after that they will continue to be stripped with a much higher base every year thereafter; and that, by a government that does not know how to control spending.

REASON III

TABOR WORKS VERY WELL. Do you realize that TABOR gives the State Government up to a 6% raise each and every year with a healthy economy? TABOR gives raises every year for inflation and population growth added together. That's very generous. Would you like to own a business like that? The General Fund Budget shrank just one-half of one percent for one year because of the 2001 (9/11) recession, however the overall State budget increased that year.

REASON IV

SPENDING IS THE PROBLEM. A responsible government should cut millions of dollars in spending. Caseloads keep going up every year in our Department of Corrections (prisons), Human Services, and Medicaid. We need innovation and creativity on how to solve the increasing caseload problem without raising taxes.

REASON V

REFERENDUM C IS A GIANT TAX INCREASE.

The refunds that would be denied the taxpayers of Colorado would be at least $3.1 billion and possibly up to $3.7 billion!!! Tax increases cripple our economy. Tax increases take away jobs. Tax increases take badly needed money from your home budget and businesses. Your refunds could be used for your children, for your healthcare expenses, for your house payments, and perhaps for your retirement.

REASON VI

Referendum D, a companion of C is a Bond issue for OVER Two Billion Dollars. before the debt is paid off it will cost three billion dollars.

REASON VII

Fundamentally this is a struggle of LIBERTY vs TYRAnNY.

Giving liberal Democrats control of the House and Senate is practically a blank check. Colorado could become the current California, which was hurt severely by former Governor Gray Davis and the Democrats.

REASON VIII

AMENDMENT #23 IS A BIG PROBLEM

Amendment 23 mandates yearly increases that destroy the balance of funds for other programs like transportation, Medicare, and higher education. Amendment 23 allows K-12 spending to raise dramatically. We are increasing this part of the budget by 7.9% and it is $61 million over the allowed Amendment 23 budget.

REASON IX

REFERENDUM C IS NOT A COMPROMISE AT ALL. They call it a compromise because Democrat Romanoff originally asked for 10 years for Referendum C, then compromised it to five years.

REASON X

THE SOLUTION TO THE CONUNDRUM OF TABOR VS AMENDMENT 23 IS AS FOLLOWS:

1.Change Amendment 23. The Governor offered a compromise on 23 and TABOR 2 years ago, and it did not pass. We need to run it again.

2.There are many areas that the State can cut costs to relieve spending.

3.We need to brainstorm this area more and give Colorado Citizens a plan for the future of Colorado.