- Jeffco ballot issue lets schools off the hook
- Objections cited to Dougco Ballot Issue 1B
- Prostitution should be a legal activity
- A suspect switch
- Wasteful searches
- A higher law
- 100 percent unsafe
- A DIFFERING VIEW/Denver bond measures should pass as a package
- Ongoing war funding is killing U.S. troops
- Paul Campos & Mitt Romney
Objections cited to Dougco Ballot Issue 1B
I don't support Douglas County Ballot Issue 1B for the following reasons:
1. Because of the existing sales and use tax and the intergovernmental agreement
between Douglas County and the town of Castle Rock, when the current sales and
use tax expires on Dec. 31, 2010, the town of Castle Rock's sales tax will go up
0.4 percent.
2. North Meadows Drive to Interstate 25 is not a Douglas County problem. The
citizens of Castle Rock approved the sale of bonds in 2005 to build North
Meadows Drive to Colorado 85 (though that alignment is not finalized yet).
Colorado 85 to I-25 is, again, not a Douglas County problem, though Douglas
County, according to its Transportation Capital Improvement Program, would like to earmark $12.8 million toward building
this roadway and interchange, if 1B passes. Along with Meadows Parkway, Happy
Canyon Road is an existing connection between Colorado 85 and I-25.
3. Douglas County, again, doesn't identify any multimodal forms of mass
transportation in its Transportation Capital Improvements Program.
Leslie H. Lilly, Castle Rock
Using sales taxes to pay for roads is a subsidy, verging on socialism. If roads were paid for with user fees (gasoline taxes) then we wouldn't need so many roads since people would use them less and more effciently. Raise gas taxes, and OPEC would have a fit though, and we wouldn't want that now would we? Let's keep subsidizing our dependence on OPEC by paying for roads with sales, property and income taxes...
Posted by Liam on October 26, 2007 08:47 AMUsing sales taxes to pay for roads is a subsidy, verging on socialism. If roads were paid for with user fees (gasoline taxes) then we wouldn't need so many roads since people would use them less and more effciently. Raise gas taxes, and OPEC would have a fit though, and we wouldn't want that now would we? Let's keep subsidizing our dependence on OPEC by paying for roads with sales, property and income taxes...
Posted by Liam on October 26, 2007 08:49 AM