Ballot measures and property taxes
Beware Denver homeowners! There is a Trojan horse at your front door.
Mayor Hickenlooper’s office is paying (your tax dollars?) “consultants” to “sell voters on NINE (my emphasis) ballot measures this fall that would raise property taxes,” according to RMN writer Daniel J. Chacon. ("Panel works to sell voters on tax hike.") Sell Voters? What does that mean? To a tax payer it should mean that the consultants are going to put lipstick on a pig and while you are trying to decide if that is a pig you are looking at, there will be a tax hike tugging at your wallet.
What you won’t hear from the consultants is that your property tax is already going to increase thanks to Gov. Bill Ritter’s School Finance Act, which he insists in not a tax hike. They can call it what they want, but it is the same pig. It is money out of your pocket into the government’s dubious pocket. Remember Ref C money?
They won’t tell you that there are at least 17 proposals to increase your taxes next year; that tax money is needed to bury power lines; that insurance costs have risen 6.1%; that Denver Water is going for a rate hike; that, according to Tucker Hart Adams, “income (will be) rising more slowly than inflation; there will be no improvement in the standard of living. In fact there will be a decline.”
Is it just coincidental that we are overwhelmed with tax increases and the Democrats are in political control of Denver and Colorado? Oh well, you get what you vote for!
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Democrats are an embarrassment. They are worse than tax-and-spend. They are tax-and-graft.
Posted by on September 19, 2007 02:05 PMThe Democrat tax form:
How much did you make?
Send it all.
Vote No on everything.
Seriously. Let the legislators fight it out if it's really so important.
Posted by VoteNO on September 19, 2007 05:25 PMDear god am I sick of being taxed! Let's throw tea into Sloan's lake!
Posted by Read my lips! on September 19, 2007 05:27 PMI hate to say it, but these party lines are getting old. The republicans want to tax you to death too. It's a politician thing, not a party line. When we stop arguing, we can actually get to the truth of this issue. Time to stop watching CNN and FOX, and open our eyes.
Posted by TMR on September 19, 2007 05:29 PMI hate to say it, but these party lines are getting old. The republicans want to tax you to death too. It's a politician thing, not a party line. When we stop arguing, we can actually get to the truth of this issue. Time to stop watching CNN and FOX, and open our eyes.
Posted by TMR on September 19, 2007 05:30 PM“The republicans want to tax you to death too.” – interesting analogy. If I wanted to be arrogant, I would call this a baseless bold-faced lie, but for now I’ll just call it misinformation.
Posted by Uno on September 19, 2007 09:51 PMthe republicans want to tax you to death too?
if that is true why are all of the far left liberal dumocrats running for pres saying they will get rid of all of the tax cuts Bush put in place?
The Democrats have at least admitted that taxes will rise with them in power. Now we the people have to decide if we want them spending our money as they see fit or do we want to spend our own money as we se fit. Giving them all our money will give them absolute power over our lives and I don't understand why liberals can't see that and why they don't care. They need to stop the Bush hating because he will be gone and wake up and smell the roses.
Posted by on September 20, 2007 11:44 AMYou get what you vote for was the bottom line of that opinion. Democrats have made it very clear they will raise taxes and increase social programs that most of us probably don't want to see in the first place.
Be careful with your vote in November 08, we could be paying the price for a long time to come.