Coloradans are supposed to get $2 billion back in their wallets through Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) tax refunds this year, but Democrat lawmakers have other plans to spend our rebates.
Their wish list already exceeds $1.5 billion with programs that are guaranteed to grow even more expensive year after year, reports Colorado Politics.
Topping the Democrats’ list is the reincarnation of cash welfare payments that were eliminated back in the 1990s because it kept families living in poverty and dependent on taxpayer programs for every necessity.
Colorado wants to revive government-dependence and pay people for each child they have and call it a tax credit — except it goes to people who pay a pittance in taxes.
The problem with these child tax credits is that it suddenly made sense for one parent to stay home and collect government checks rather than work.
PeakNation™ will recall Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet first convinced Biden and the Democrats to bring back cash welfare payments during COVID.
Bennet tried to make those cash payments permanent when he was campaigning for reelection.
But it was such a rotten idea, even Biden and the Democrat leadership abandoned Bennet and refused to renew his welfare program once they say how it depleted the work force.
Now Colorado Dems want to spend $655 million this year in child welfare payments, and of course it would go up every year eating more of our TABOR rebates — nearly $700 million is already estimated for next year.
That’s $5,000 per kid the first year.
For those who don’t remember, welfare dependence became so widespread in the U.S. and linked to substance abuse, domestic violence, crime, and school dropout rates that political forces in Washington worked together to get it under control.
Republicans wrote the welfare reform bill, Democrats voted to pass it, and President Clinton signed it into law in 1996.
More than 42 million people in the U.S. are now dependent on government taxpayer paid programs that dole out cash to folks who can’t or won’t work.
Let’s not repeat that mistake and get more families hooked on living off the taxpayer dole in poverty.