Hm, I don’t want to answer any of these questions.
Tonight, Sen. Mark Udall will face Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner in a Denver Post debate. Since Udall has repeatedly ducked Coloradans, there are some questions we have for him that we hope The Denver Post will ask tonight. Here goes (in no particular order):
- Why do you
acceptsupport Governor Hickenlooper’s controversial decision to grant Nathan Dunlap a temporary reprieve? - Why did you deny saying fracking ‘keeps us locked in the old system’ when it’s documented in an audio recording?
- You’ve said you support a carbon tax, what exact price would you put on carbon?
- Why do you believe that ISIS does not pose an ‘imminent’ threat to our nation? Is it because you missed 64% of public hearings of Armed Services Committee meetings and all public hearings on emerging threats?
- Why did you lie to the Rocky Mountain News about your arrest record?
- Why won’t you debate on network TV?
- Why won’t you support Keystone XL, even though it would provide jobs and energy independence to Colorado?
- Do you support your donor Tom Steyer’s past water grab as outlined by former U.S. Sen. Allard?
- Do you owe Coloradans an apology for lying when you said that they would be able to keep their plans?
- You recently highlighted helping ski resorts gain the ability to use lands all year round as your biggest accomplishment. What piece of legislation have you passed that will actually help hard-working, middle-class Coloradans?
These are tough questions, but the final question is whether The Denver Post will have the cojones to ask them.
How could Senator Makr Udall in good conscience take more than $750k to support & help pass the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA)last 5/6/13 without disucssion. The giant retailers gave Mr. Udall and other senators over $50 million lobby funds. The vote followed the money! We need less big government being fed by big money, not more!
None of the members of our small grass roots organization could talk directly with Sen. Udall. I couldn't get in to talk directly with Diana Degette, being told that it takes around 3 years to arrange a direct payment. Ms. Degette as well accepted a large sume of money to support the MFA. Can you believe that the giant retailers lobbied the House more than $50 mil? The House is supposed to represent the little guy.
The MFA greviously would harm #colorado #smallbiz and help giant retailers, creating once again substantial taxpayer funding that would in effect become nothing more than another tax that subsidizes Walmart, HomeDepot, BestBuy, Macys, and other giant retailers' growth! That's not our job as taxpayers. Particularly when more smaller businesses have been closing than starging up in today's economy and when smaller businesses provide more than 52% of the jobs!
Look at how the giant retailers have been invading Cherry Creek North, taking over the smaller retail spaces. They have been doing that in every developing neighborhood throughout the state and country. Because the malls are losing business by more than 32%. The glamor of malls has faded. Now the giant retailers want to take smaller, reinvented versions of themselves and occupy the small business retai spaces that become available when the small neighborhood business can't compete and must close their doors! The MFA only would hurt #smallbiz America, not help it!
And local business won't be protected by the MFA. California has enacted an online tax collection act that almost exclusvely affects the smaller online businesses because giant retailers, having physical presence all over the country and certainly throughout California that has become a strong "franchise" and big retailer state, can submit tax to a local sales tax district on which a brick and mortar resides.
Instead, with physical presense in just one or so states, the MFa would require that the samller busienseses become use tax collectors for the entire country. The Wakefiled study showed that accountants would rather run a marathon in full than work for a smaller busienss and code for over 9600 sales tax jurisdicitons across the country. The variability and highly nuanced differences among these tax jurisdictions is so complicated that if the tax accounts were to doit, there's a 50% chance mistakes would be caught if an audit were pulled. When 45 money hungry states cross across Colorado's borders, you can bet that audits would occur. Smaller businesses can't suvive six or more audits a year, particularly when, again as shown by the Wakefield study, the average amount collected by an auditor is $96,000. How might that be possible? Because states differer in regard to rules and regulations. Some have statue of limitations that are 20 or more years. Many can access peraonal assists!
But the MFA also hurt the local Clifornian businesses because 40% of them must sell online to compete with giant retailers. The only business sector that increased sales were the giant retaillers; they substantially benefited.
Regarding Udall's supposed advocacy of women, consider how adversely passage of the MFA would harm women, minorities, veterans, and the middle class! The Minority Media Telecommunications Council (MMTC) has stated that an online sales tax bill will disproportionately hurt minorities and women who own small businesses. Other studies are indicating the same conclusions.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/327225-online-sales-tax-would-hurt-minority-women-mfa-opponents-say#ixzz2hAxXhQWi
Coloradan citizens, please join our grass roots organization to become better educated about this act that has recently been found to harm scores of other industries, not just the smaller online ones. We're working hard to inform those industries; they are clueless. We've contacted the Agricultural Retail Association and the Auto Retail associations, and they have or are writng leters to oppose the act after their attorneys and accountants researched the specifics of acts and found out how it could well bring their industries to a hault! There are scores of other industries that curently support the act because they are clueless about how massively it would affect them. Please help us reach thos industries so that they can take a stand and protect themselves! We don't need another train wreck that's worse than Obamacare, with all of us on the track, clueless about what is coming right at us!
https://www.facebook.com/OpposeInternetSalesTaxes
Stay home Mark… You're out of your league.