You must be one stupid son of a gun. Why else would Jared Polis and the Democrats in the legislature think you would fall for their “saving you money” election-year circus act? Step right up, folks! Witness astounding feats of legislative legerdemain! As they say, there’s a sucker born every minute.
Just three years ago, Polis tried to convince taxpayers that Proposition CC somehow would let the state spend more money “without raising taxes.” He used that phrase three times in the same op-ed. Track the ball under the cup and place your bets! The ballot measure would have let politicians spend our refunds under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), thereby increasing the net amount of taxes we pay to the state, even though technically it would not have raised tax rates.
Polis also said, repeating language from the ballot measure, that the money would be used for “education and transportation.” But of course state money generally is fungible, meaning the legislature could have just redirected existing money away from education and transportation and then backfilled with the additional tax dollars. Here’s an idea: Why doesn’t the legislature prioritize the money it already has? Anyway, voters defeated Polis’s vanishing act to make TABOR refunds permanently disappear.
See the full article by Ari Armstrong, August 9, 2022