In opposition to Boulder County Issue 1C
The ballot measure starts out with: "With no new tax ..."Oh, come on! They want to keep tax money that should be refunded and they call this "no new tax". Of course it is a new tax and saying it isn't does not make it so.
Note that they are asking for an additional $4.7 million over current spending. That is, the county didn't spend it but now they want to spend money that they collected that they should not have collected in the first place.
There is also a technical and legal issue. The author of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) assures the author of this comment that the Colorado Constitution limits the period that any tax increase must be resubmitted to voters to four years.
1C asks the voters to approve this tax increase "FOR ALL FUTURE YEARS."
Didn't we approve this "worthy cause tax" last year? Apparently asking the citizens for more money every year requires that the citizens forget what the money was for last year.
What this tax increase does is cause the very people who are at the edge of desperation to need more in the way of social services because the general tax rate has gone up. If you vote for this tax then you are voting to put people out of work and you are voting to make life harder for the poor and you are voting to create the very need for services that this tax is supposed to pay for.
The increasing tax burden will further cripple this county. Just look at the empty stores. Look how hard it is for you and your children to find a job in Boulder County. Do we really want to export jobs to counties with a saner tax policy? Do we really want to increase the congestion on our highways and the increasing pollution that comes with it as people scramble for a job farther and farther from home? Do we really want to cause parents to have even less time with their children as they commute to a job in Adams County?
This money belongs to you. You can give this money to the charity of your choice rather than to the politically connected charities selected by the political bureaucrats. Or you can spend the money at a store in Boulder County and help to create a job that will reduce the burden on the social safety net and give someone the pride and satisfaction of paying their own way.
Or you could just put the money in a bank so that you will have the money to pay for all the other taxes.
Vote NO on 1C.
Ralph Shnelvar
1333 King Ave
Boulder, CO 80302
303-546-6125
ralphs@dos32.com