TABOR: too extreme for Colorado Springs

I mean this is crazy

the city has been turning off lights, they have nearly no budget, and only now are they realizing they need to fix it?  Serious props to the mayor for standing up though.  I'm pretty sure he'll be drummed out of the Republican party for this.

Sorry Michael Bennet, but I'm a real person too

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by: StrykerK2 @ Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 19:55:27 PM UTC

Your poll is flawed

teh cinders from the head explosion of Doug Bruce will ignite the flames to burn the witch. All votes for those two options are really the same.  

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by: Fong @ Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 21:17:49 PM UTC

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this also drives away

potential business investors and even movie production opportunities.

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by: wade norris @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 19:36:54 PM UTC

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Could be the makings of a "reality show," though.

Coming this fall on Fox: "The Springs"  

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"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." --- Britney Spears, September 2003

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Sat Jul 03, 2010 at 03:10:22 AM UTC

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What an incredibly sad joke.

To think about all of the hyperbolic talk about how cutting spending will fix all of our problems, and now they want a time out. It makes me so angry.  

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by: Const Framr @ Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 21:23:23 PM UTC

Is there a link for this?

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by: Fong @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 00:08:55 AM UTC

Here:

http://www.gazette.com/article...

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"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." --- Britney Spears, September 2003

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 00:36:19 AM UTC

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All aboard the row-back machine:

Colorado Springs Councilman Sean Paige said he would "certainly consider" what he called a "TABOR refund timeout" of three to five years.

"I'm a strong supporter of TABOR, but I'm also on record as saying that I don't think it was handed down on tablets from a burning bush," he said.

Gee, maybe we really do need a "socialist" Fire Department and stuff. Who'da thunk.

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"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." --- Britney Spears, September 2003

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 00:43:08 AM UTC

Talk about a lack of spine

Either you're a supporter of it or you're not.  The economic theory either works or it doesn't.

Time-outs aren't good enough.  The state government will figure that out when Ref C expires and our economy still hasn't recovered to 2005 levels.

As the Cons are fond of saying - enough with the social experiment!  It's time to completely repeal TABOR.

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by: WeatherDem @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 14:55:12 PM UTC

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Don't read the comments

It is generally very disturbing.  There seems to be large majority of commenters who see this as further proof they are over spending on government down there.

Then like a two year old child, a story about a college that promotes Religion in government catches my eye and there goes another 15 minutes.

I felt like I was at the zoo watching monkeys throw sh!t at other.

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by: jeffcodemo @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 18:41:36 PM UTC

Noted.

I will not do that. Thank you.

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by: Fong @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 19:49:00 PM UTC

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You made this mess, now you live with it

I take a bit of pleasure from watching the Springs crazy themselves into oblivion.  I would like to see a dystopian society being built in front of me.  It could be a cool anthropology area in about 15 years.  In our lifetime we could see real hard factual results of this drown government in the bathtub theory.  I say that the people of Colorado Springs made their bed, now they get to sleep in it.  I really want to see them come whining to the state when the city can no longer support their sense of moral outrage at government.
I did read some of the comments, I wonder where some of these people were educated, that way I can be sure that kids never go to those schools.  Yeeek.  

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by: Song @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 18:47:55 PM UTC

It's Fun To Belittle the TABOR Nuts in El Paso County, But It Affects Us All

I would dearly love to watch the CS ideologues sink into the desert dust, but I'm afraid that they and their stupid TABOR amendment will drive jobs from all of Colorado, including many of the high paying aerospace jobs throughout the Front Range. I am afraid that one of the big employers will have to pull up stakes and move out with 10,000 engineering and management jobs to New York or Texas before these dopes will realize what their unthinking anti-tax behavior has wrought.  

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by: saindenver @ Sat Jul 03, 2010 at 21:30:41 PM UTC

Excellent point and well-stated

n/t

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"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." --- Britney Spears, September 2003

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Sun Jul 04, 2010 at 00:15:50 AM UTC

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