Comments on: THAT’S RICH: Amendment 66 Proponents Hope to Raise $10 to $20 Million https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/26/thats-rich-amendment-66-hopes-to-raise-10-to-20-million/ Colorado's Conservative Bully Pulpit Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Colorado Peak Politics - When it comes to education, how much should parents owe? https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/26/thats-rich-amendment-66-hopes-to-raise-10-to-20-million/#comment-3492 Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:15:48 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15785#comment-3492 […] instead of raising $20 million for campaign consultants, petition circulators and television ad time, why not create a non-profit to help students pay for […]

]]> By: Chris Rawlings https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/26/thats-rich-amendment-66-hopes-to-raise-10-to-20-million/#comment-11276 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 02:19:46 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15785#comment-11276 As my Jeffco School teacher-wife pointed out–and you all might have made this point in the past, too–wouldn't it make more sense for these liberal donors to just give their 10 or 20 million directly to schools rather than flushing it all down the electoral toilet in one fell swoop? No, it's not a billion, but I'm confident that you'll find a fair number of takers throughout the state's many districts that would be just fine with 20 million dollars. And that way the money would certainly go to the schools themselves, rather than the state general fund where Democrats can legislatively (and, of course, legally) funnel a little off the top to various special interest groups.

But what fun is it if you can't make Colorado's tax code more "progressive" while you're at it? And that is probably what this is about as much as it is about teachers union pensions and covering for government waste and, somewhere down the line, Colorado kids. If you can't beat TABOR, then join it–by spending such an absurd amount of money on GOTV and marketing that TABOR ceases to matter anymore. Is that how we're doing it now?

I sure hope this state rejects the Democrats' cynical politics. It will be a bright day indeed when the GOP takes control of government.

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