Revealing all the facts when it comes to voting
This November the Denver Mayor and City Council will ask voters to approve 9 bond ballot measures that will raise property taxes. Mayor Hickenlooper has sited several reasons for the need to increase Denver property taxes.
Not mentioned: The costs of illegal immigrants to the City of Denver. Are the costs minor or major? Will the costs increase over the next few years? Is the City of Denver tracking the current and projected costs? What are the costs? Should Denver voters be informed of the costs, or will it prove to be too politically sensitive and create controversy? Will the facts and details undermine the Mayor’s efforts to raise taxes in order to pay the bills? Should the voters of Denver be asked to not inquire, to remain uninformed as to Denver budgetary fiscal facts and details, relative to illegal immigration costs? Many believe that the costs are quite significant and will continue to rise. Many believe that transparency in our governmental processes is a good thing.
Many feel that those not afraid of being transparent (i.e., parents, teachers, accountants, auditors, politicians) demonstrates honesty, integrity, strength of character, and courage. It facilitates trust and confidence. Many believe that the above questions are fiscally prudent, reasonable and fair. Opening the Denver budgetary fiscal facts and details to the Denver voters so that they will be informed voters in November is the right thing to do.
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TAX, TAX HIKE, TAX INCREASE, TAX JUMP, tax on everything that moves tax , use-tax, tax on taxes, surtax, tax on surtax., A-Z tax, M-W tax, B1A-WZ-9 tax, airtax, breathing tax, ass tax, fart tax, food tax, clothinng tax, nose-pick tax, global warming tax, ass-wipe tax, hate-crime tax, Hispanic tax.
DEMOTAXS, Hick Tax, Ritter tax, ...If you voted for change, then you got it--10 cents in your wallet, after taxes.
TAX !
Posted by Hank on October 19, 2007 05:40 PMThese initiatives will pass easily.
If you don't love our City, move. This City is Liberal, get over it.
Posted by rick on October 19, 2007 07:18 PMTAXES IN DENVER ARE RIDICULOUS AND PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE OUT OF THE CITY LIMITS. I WON'T EVEN BUY ANYTHING IN DENVER ANYMORE!
Posted by brain on October 19, 2007 07:28 PMBrain,
Where do you live? Where do you go for dinner. T.G.I.F. or Red Robin, or Bennigans?\
Loser.
Posted by rick on October 19, 2007 07:33 PMCol. Matheson, sir, you have gone where no man has gone before. It is scandolous that you are questioning the costs of criminal illegal Mexicans. Dixiecrats fear the pro-illegal lobby. Heck, my homey, Rev. Al Sharpton, recently signed a contract with Wal-Mart to be one of their criminal illegal Mexican lobbyists. US Sen. Shamnesty Salazar, captain, SS Amnesty (just another slave ship). He rules the national Dixiecrat roost on this pimping and explotingof taxpayers.
I am simply astonished, my 43 "suits and dresses", that comprise the Congressional Black Caucus-CBC-comical blacks in congress and NAACP, collectively, "cut and ran" from the facts, criminal illegal Mexicans are emotionally and finacially raping blacks, nationally.
Blacks are getting an "illegals double whammy". Ritter, Skaggs, Stephen Jordan, Hillary/Bill, and Bill Gates aren't friends of black folks. This posse's favorite illegals are Hindu-Indians. They want unlimited H-1B visas for Hindus, so they can come into this country and lower the salaries of our hi-tech workers.
Hindus like the posse, don't like blacks either. I encountered some of Ritter's thugs at Metro State College (MSC). Despite my federal 10 point disabled military veterans employment preference, these alien thugs vaporized my benefits and they could barely speak English. Unbeknownst to me, in violation of both state and federal appropriations, Ritter and his gang had outsourced MSC's hiring function to criminal illegal Hindu-Indians (Dataman, Inc.). I don't recall seeing either Hindus, Ritter, BILLARY, or Gates, during any of my 3 deployments to Vietnam. maybe Colorado's 400K vets should ban together and protest Hillary's visit next week.
Posted by draftdodgingisntafamilyvalue on October 19, 2007 07:34 PMNOT IN DENVER!
Posted by brain, not in denver on October 19, 2007 08:04 PMDid you even say... READ THE INITIATIVES? There is not excuse for ignorance in this case.
A - Maintain streets and parks. This will teach those illegals to stop tearing up the parks and causing poor weather that ruins streets.
B - Infrastructure renovation of animal shelters, child care centers, and a 5th floor for Denver Health. Clearly infrastructure deteriorates more rapidly in proportion to the number of illegal immigrants. Pipes and electrical wiring hates illegals!
C - Maintenence on and construction of new libraries. Clearly an illegal immigrant and/or communist plot to educate people.
D - Widen federal, other street improvements. Aka money for illegals.
E - Civic center park maintenence and recreation in Stapleton and Central Denver. I also hate illegals who live in $400,000 condos in urban suburbia.
F - Refurbish city buildings. They wouldn't need refurbished if illegals would stop urinating on them am I right?
G - Refurbish cultural buildings. Those concert hall attending illegals are bringing us all down.
H - Expand cultural facilities (Concert Hall, Musuem of Nature and Science) - See above
I - New crime lab / fire station / firing range. Wouldn't be needed if all the illegal arsonists would go home, even if the crime rate amongst "illegals" is actually lower than other "legal" groups
So in conclusion... when intellectual debate fails, blame the illegals. None of these intiatives is at all related to services for illegal immigrants. One day rationality will return... it has to.
Posted by Kyle on October 19, 2007 10:05 PMKyle-
Read William's letter again.
He says, "NOT MENTIONED, the cost of illegal immigrants to the city of Denver."
None of these political COWARDS ever mention the cost of illegal immigration to the taxpayers.
AS WILLIAM SAID, "NOT MENTIONED".
Posted by c on October 20, 2007 09:29 AMMke H, typical ass.
I love Benny,s. It costs 8 bucks a person, ass.
Posted by rick on October 20, 2007 09:33 AMKyle-
Who do you think will get all these jobs refurbishing, fixing streets, etc. for the city of Denver? ILLEGALS, and you think they have nothing to do with this subject.
FOOL.
Posted by c on October 20, 2007 10:38 AMC
Please back up your assumptions with something concrete. Rhetoric does not equal fact.
Fool.
Posted by Kyle on October 21, 2007 03:34 AMKyle-
Are you blind? Look around. Do you talk to anyone in construction or in the trades who's jobs have been stolen by ILLEGAL, cheap labor?
Naive.
Posted by c on October 21, 2007 09:58 PM