Grand Junction, CO – The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Editorial Board must make the big bucks judging by their recent endorsement of Proposition CC. The controversial Proposition will do away with Coloradan’s state tax refunds permanently.
A recent opinion by the Editorial Board printed in Colorado Politics calls the potential $248 in refunds owed to Coloradans in the next year a “nominal” amount.
Who do they think they are, House Speaker KC Becker? She believes $248 is a small amount for individuals. Apparently, the Editorial Board at the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel agrees.
According to them, $248 is such a minuscule amount people will not even notice it missing from their wallets.
Read the Editorial Board’s closing remark for yourself.
It’s entirely appropriate to let voters decide if they would prefer to forgo nominal refunds and let the state use the extra money to address some long overdue societal needs— namely roads and education.
From: The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Yes on CC
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What is entirely appropriate is forcing the government to ASK people to increase taxes. That is why Coloradans voted for the Taxpayer Bill of Rights – not so uppity editorialists can tell people they do not need the extra cash.
Other than the embarrassing gaffe that the Editorial Board definitely knows a tax refund will not help individuals or their families [sarcasm], we see a major problem with their closing statement.
We want to emphasize this next point for our readers.
There is absolutely no guarantee extra money raised by this tax hike (yes, it is a tax increase) will be spent on roads and education in the future. Legislators will have the option to shift current funds away from roads and education to whatever pet project strikes their fancy.
For example, x amount of dollars will go to the education fund. Legislators then take x amount of “different” dollars out of the education fund to spend on whatever they want.
It is incredible how many factual mistakes an editorial board can make in three paragraphs.
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The nominal amount is not really important but the control of taxes by the electors and not just the legislators is very important. This bill is not about the refund as much as is giving the tax payers a say in whether new taxes or more taxes will be levied against them. Our vote is the control of our legislators to act as we want them to.
This is the same old worn out BS. The democrats are always putting out there. Nominal 248.00. Is not nominal, when you live on Social security, 1400.00 a month is what my wife and I live on. Stick nominal up your butt.
Then we get or well if we put all the money in our hands we’ll make the schools, and roads awsome for u. Trust us to spend it more wisely than the taxpayers. NO ON CC. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. It not more money they need it’s all the money.
The real problem is mismanagement of all the money they get now. NO ON CC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it is nominal, then why do they need to keep it?
I want a nominally LARGER REFUND instead! Taxed enough already. Recent studies show that with all combined taxation through the entire pipeline, Americans really do pay well over half of everything they earn to one form or tax or another. In Thornton Colorado, they paid a lot of money to put in new sidewalks and the highest quality post and picket 100 year wood fence. Then they cut it down a few years later, expanded the road, tossed up more cameras, a brand new pole, and put down another costly fence. I would have rather had the undeveloped land from 10 years ago and the dirt path. Money to burn, and they’re burning through it fast. All these municipalities have enjoyed a literal doubling if not tripling of property tax income. It’s not even close to enough. Can we opt out of taxation yet?