- Gov. Ritter’s executive order for unions
- When will people be held accountable?
- Noisy neighbors are inconsiderate
- Passage of A through I good for children
- Congrats to Michael Mukasey
- Modifications to Title VII
- Election counting problems
- Homeless veterans
- Pakistan the most dangerous
- Fair elections need to be implemented
Taxes just keep going up and up and up
Oh the Democrats — tax and spend. They raised our property taxes and raised fees for some other services. Now I see where the transportation panel appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter is proposing new taxes and fees to raise as much as $2 billion a year. One fee increase would include an average $100 a year in auto registration fees. Another increase would double the 22-cents-a-gallon state gas tax. Another is to raise the state sales tax by 0.55 cents.
Maybe the next time the four ultra-rich, liberal Democrats (Rutt Bridges, Tim Gill, Jared Polis and Pat Stryker) back candidates and issues, the voters will pay more attention. Everyone gets stuck with the bill — Republicans, Democrats and independents.
The voters gave the politicians a time-out from the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. Where is all of that money being spent? No more time outs for TABOR once the current moratorium expires.
Here in Castle Rock, the Town Council is toying with the cockamamie idea of building a baseball stadium that would be paid for by a sales tax increase. We already have a very high sales tax here, including sales tax on groceries.
It has to stop. We just can’t keep raising taxes.
David Sullivan, Castle Rock
As long as the sheeple continue to believe the lies of the politicos, and keep supporting their money grabs, there will be no end to the fleecing of the American Taxpayer. Politicians live to find new ways to fleece more money from the sheeple, and somehow, the faithful keep marching to the slaughter. The current "It's for the children" mantra seems to be growing old, so it has been replaced by the "Universal Heath Care" sob story.
There was a time when we paid the doctor directly for services rendered, and the insurance we carried was called "Major Medical" or "Hospitalization". It didn't cover trimming our fingernails, or any of the other PC "diseases". Our house insurance doesn't cover mowing our lawn, so why should our health insurance cover routine checkups? Perhaps because theose checkups have become lucrative money-wells for the industry, and as long as nobody knows what they cost, the medical bureacracy can get away with it?
People, wake up and realize that you are being led to the slaughter.
Posted by clyde on November 13, 2007 01:36 AMSo where did the Ref.C money go?
It was supposed to be for roads, higher education, ect. The EXACT same things
the a**hole Ritter wants now to increase
taxes for. Is anyone suprised the Dems.
pull the EXACT same crap when they manage to grab power.
BTW, I'm a registered independent.
Posted by RickyLee on November 13, 2007 06:00 AMDavid have you been paying a attention to how much spending Bush as done the last 7 years. Can you maybe tell us how that is going to be payed for? Or are you worried about that? No big deal our kids and their kids can pay for it. Can you say moron? Because that is what you are.
Posted by on November 13, 2007 06:06 AM
Governor Ritter wants to increase taxes? Never have I seen more of a fiscally irresponsibility action by a person, who is supposed to represent the publics best interests, in the light of decreasing taxes from bars and taverns due to the smoking ban the legislature enacted and he edorses, and in January adding even more tax losses from casinos under the same ban that he approves of. And did you know what's next if he doesn't get what he wants, why it's increasing the tax on casinos, possibly up to 40% as a result of the provisions in the law passed allowing gambling, which will no doubt cause some or most of the independent casinos to close their doors. Then, I guess, he'll justify that by saying it's for the wellbeing and protection of the public's health while at the same time trying to explain how he caused a further decrease in tax revenue, not to mention driving bars, taverns and casinos out of business and putting thousands of people out of work to the detriment of them and their families.
Let me try to explain this another way; You know you're going to need more tax revenue in future so you enact a law that will decrease tax revenue from bars and taverns through a ban on smoking and keep trying to add more businesses, casinos, cigar bars, DIA to that list and also raising their cost of operating through higher taxes on alcohol along with increased utility, insurance and other operating costs, so you have to ask the voters to approve a tax hike on every taxpayer to pay for what the majority of bluecollar workers can't afford for themselves or their families. And if the zealots get their way, fast food establishments are next along with smokers and obese people loosing their jobs if they don't slim down or quit smoking so that will add even more lost revenue, and the zealots list goes on and on ad nauseam. You can't get what you want if in the process of selling it to the public, the public sees you destroying the sources of the money needed to pay for it and making plans to dig deeper in your pockets to get it.
But politicians, by their own admissions, are incapable of considering the facts in the process of enacting laws or looking down the road to the consequences of their actions, just like like zealots are incapable of, so we must not treat them wrong. No, not wrong, we should throw the whole lying lot of them out of Our Government's public offices and ban them from ever running for public offices of any kind forever. Incompetence is expected from young children who have not learned, but incompetence from, so called, adult legislators and public officials who claim to know better than We The People how we should live our lives is completely unacceptable and cannot be forgiven.
Why are all the Bush haters who voted everything Democrat just to spite Bush,whining now?
They didn't actually think that the Democrats wouldn't raise taxes did they?
Wow!
Posted by Can I get an AMEN! on November 13, 2007 06:26 AMNow Allen I ask you When we continue to spend billions and billions and billions on wars and fighting machines. Where do we get the money to take care of domestic needs in this country. I hate taxes like the next guy but some where we need to get government to curb spending. Now you can blame the democrats but they are all doing it.
Posted by on November 13, 2007 06:34 AM"Tax and spend democrats"...same old tired regurgitated rherotic coming from the BORROW AND SPEND republiCONS.
In case you haven't noticed, David, et al, our economy is on a runaway freight train to recession and George Bush has been at the controls that got us there.
A little over 7 years ago, when Clinton was leaving office, we had it's first budget surplus in more than 30 years.
Now the deficit is greater than it was before.
Bush and the republicans have spent HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to destroy and then try to rebuild Iraq while ignoring the economy here at home.
I hope everyone that voted for them remebers that when the value of your 401K's are dropping and China owns all of our bonds.
Hope you all realize - there is *NO DIFFERENCE* between the current crop of REpubs and Dems.....
none
It is time to step up and vote for one whom is a STRICT CONSTITUTIONALIST....
Ron Paul
Posted by Rory on November 13, 2007 07:43 AMThe sheep were con again by the democraps,now everybody needs to pay.
Posted by Keith on November 13, 2007 07:45 AMTAXOCRATS ARE JUST GETTING STARTED:
Have you noticed their common thread--that the solution to everything is a tax hike?
Ritter's $2 billion on top of Hicks alphabet of tax hikes. Hillary want's $1 trillion for starters for her socialized medicine (that number is on its way to $5 trillion) and retirement scheme. Rangle wants to fix the AMT tax with a $1 trillion tax hike (his tax hike cures an earlier tax hike), Obama wants to raise payroll taxes for SS and Edwards wants broadly based tax hikes to support a cornucopia of socialist programs.
If you vote Dem because you want change, then change you will get--a pocket full of nickles and dimes left over for you.
Posted by Hank on November 13, 2007 07:49 AMWhen are you left and right pontificates, ever argueing to no avail in a school yard type pissing contest, going to stop long enough to see you're ignoring the saliet point.
It's all of the poiliticians that are to blame, democrat's and republican's be damned, they are all alike at least in one way.
They have created a world of their own that you are not even recognized in. They have forgot We The People are the government, we are their employers and it is our money the fiscally irresponsible jerks are accountable for and, it is our, not the special mercantile and political best interests, they are supposed to support and insure.
We need to get over our political and philosphical differences and rise up as one people to the higher purpose of controling Our Government before we become nothing more than serfs under the rule of tyranny.
Those we thought held Freedom, Justice and Liberty to be the most cherished rights of the people, have systematically undermined those cherished rights for far too long already. Let's stop the bickering at least long enough to insure our survival, as a truly free people, by stopping right damned now, this out of control rush to government by the few over the many.
Posted by Allen Campbell on November 13, 2007 07:53 AMAllen:
So what position are you running for?
Posted by Charles B on November 13, 2007 08:52 AM606 are you worried about the debt that was created by LBJ? or how about carter? and then there is clinton? JFK lowered the tax rate and revenues went up. Regan lowered them again and the revenues went up. W lowered the tax rate and revenues have gone up.
Please name a current dumonut who does not want to raise taxes? here is a clue, there are none.
thomas if you would ever look at anything other than media matters blog or the main stream you would know that the economy is in fine shape except for the democrats. unemployement is below 5%. the only part of the economy that is bad is that it is good and the dums want more taxes to spend more on all of their social programs, which get more funding than the military does.
but plese go live in your liberal progressive world as everyone does owe you a living.
Clyde...You're living in a fantasy world. In case you don't know, medical expenses are so astronomically expensive, I doubt anyone but the very wealthy can't pay a doctor directly for their services. You're smoking some pretty good crack if you think that is possible. The cost of healthcare has increased at many times the rate that salaries have. This country spends far more on healthcare than any other wealthy, developed country yet we have little to show for it when compared to them. All of them have better life expectancy and infant mortality rates than we do at a fraction of the cost. If we follow your method, we'll have more people whose insurance is cancelled out from under them by corporations like HeathNet in CA who pay thousands in bonuses to find policyholders who they can cancel. You're delusional if you believe that these insurance companies have your best medical interest in mind. I'd love to see you come up with a way for middle-class Americans, who can barely get by, come up with the money to pay out-of-pocket for checkups, but we'd be here waiting until the cows come home!
Posted by Gandalf on November 13, 2007 09:08 AMI'm not running, I could not stand the company of politicians for long, they are so two faced and insincere. My purpose is not to subject myself to that crap, it is to try to raise awareness of the irresponsibility they indulge in fiscal matters, on one hand and the ignoring of the public's best interests on the other.
But have no fear about my not doing something about it, I have for years and continue to call them to the task of truly representing us in an honest and truthful way and in some ways I cannot go into here but they include letter writing, emails and personal contact. Only a fool would join a club that he didn't like.
Posted by Allen Campbell on November 13, 2007 09:27 AMWell said Allen Campbell!!!
Why should Campbell run for any position Charles B?
His posts are knowlegable, intelligent ,refreshing, and candid.
Unlike any of the politicians in Washington D.C.(district of corruption) and politicians holding state offices!
Question Charles B. If you were to run, what position would be of interest to you and what would your agenda be?
What happened to Hillary's $5,000 reward for popping out a kid? Where was that money coming from? If the woman had a partial birth abortion, could she still get the $5 grand? After all the kid is almost born. Maybe just $4,995. Sounds like a new cottage industry to me.
Posted by on November 13, 2007 09:38 AMTwo questions....we're seeing the same crop of Republicans who overspent during Reagan's term do the same during W's term.
What promise did Bush the Smarter have to break because of these irresponsible fiscal policies?
What happens when we don't learn from history?
Posted by jay on November 13, 2007 09:43 AMGandalf,
I am not rich by any means, but have faired very well without medical insurance. After getting quotes from numerous insurance companies I decided to purchase Major medical insurance. With paying that low payment for major medical and my own doctor's cost I saved over 9 months of premiums that the insurance company would have charged, close to $5,000. I have been doing that for years and have managed to save the vast majority of the money I saved from not paying insurance premiums.
If I have a major medical need I have coverage for that, but I don't go running to a doctor everytime some little medical situation arises. It is possible to live without the day to day medical insurance. It is called Major medical insurance. Do some of your investigation and find out how much it would save you and your family.
Posted by jgd777 on November 13, 2007 09:47 AMOne more damned time. Lefty, it's not all the republican politicians who are wrong and , righty, it is not all democrat politicians who are wrong, And, neither one can claim they are better at anything. They are both at fault equally and to deny that is to be delusional, if not just plain zealous about ignoring the truth in favor of your particular party line.
Indulging in this on going and inceasing chasm between democrats and republicans is playing into the hands of those who want to undermine our constitutional rights, because as long as you are focused on each other , you are not really paying attention to them and, they love it that way.
It's time to stop pointing fingers at each other and aim your anger at the real source of our problems; the executive, legislative and judicial branches of Our Government that have confused each others roles and the legilators and governmental officials that caused that confusion and the way in which our elected representatives think they are above the common man and therefor can ignore their oath to support the constitution and not have the best interests of the people as their primary duty.
Posted by Allen Campbell on November 13, 2007 10:00 AMJay,
"What happens when we don't learn from history?"
We elect a Democrat !!!!!!
Posted by jgd777 on November 13, 2007 10:00 AMNo jdg...we continue to elect republicans that go on historical spending sprees....which result in inevitable tax raises.
That was an easy one....looks like someone skipped breakfast.
Posted by jay on November 13, 2007 10:14 AMWe are just lucky that so far the politicians have not turned to "fees" in lieu of "taxes". Some smaller municipalities have discovered this way around the requirement that citizens vote on tax increases. It won't be long before the bigger towns and cities, counties and the state, turn to imposing fees for everything from road use to entering public buildings.
Posted by art on November 13, 2007 10:29 AMI love the Republican strategy: Spend as much as you can, and let the Democrats worry about paying the bills.
Then -- point fingers and bitch about how "Democrats always raise taxes."
Where the Hell is that "Republican fiscal responsibility" we used to hear so much about? Did it ever exist to begin with?
Posted by Pragmatist on November 13, 2007 10:41 AMAllen Campbell
You hit the nail on the head -- neither party power elites have the nation as their primary focus; only gaining and holding (more) power.
The two posts following yours just exemplifies what you have said -- they are just parroting political talking points/arguments, and perpetuating the slow sinking of America into the cesspool of corruption and centralized power; the goal of power elites regardless of party "affiliation."
Posted by mongoose on November 13, 2007 10:51 AMAs the man said, the leason of history is that we forget the leasons of history, And, that forgetting is the direct result of us being so wrapped up in our own endeavors or our zealous beliefs, that we are blinded by that indulgence when anothers rights are trampled on, which inevitably results in our own suffering the same fate.
It has always humored me in one way, and disgusted me in another, when people refuse to recognize and defend another who's rights are being violated, then scream to the roof tops when they become the target of the same thing, as if they were the only one ever put upon that way.
Example: No one, except those in the bar and tavern business fought against what we knew from the experience in other states, would be the devestating economic effects of the smoking ban on our businesses, which should have been protected by our private property rights and were, until the legislature rewrote the law. AH, but now it's also obese people who find that their rights are being violated and fast food businesses are next and who you can marry and taking away your kids if you smoke at home and banning smoking in an apartment or condo you own and the amount of water you can put in your dog's dish,New York, which also has fast food and doughnuts in it's sights. What about walking your dog in a park, playing dodge ball and tag in the school yard and, shudder, illegal running in the school yard.
How about being sued if you take your kids to a kids play ground in a park that does not have foam rubber padding on everything.What about paying higher health insurance costs if your over weight or are living in any other way that the zealots call an unhealthy life style. The list is growing longer exponentially and the zealots will be in a neighbohood near you any day now.
Posted by Allen Campbell on November 13, 2007 11:09 AMSorry,you're over weight. typo.
Posted by Allen Campbell on November 13, 2007 11:16 AMHell, devastating typo. Well I was in the heat of battle or something akin to it anyway, maybe?
Posted by Allen Campbell on November 13, 2007 11:21 AMHere is an idea. How about a national election every four years. The country votes out one member of congress from each party. Once out they can never return. So long Teddy. Bye bye toe tapping bathroom bandit. Eventually you could end up with people that would do right for the country. Bringing home the most pork would not be the only job fuction.
Posted by on November 13, 2007 11:55 AMWHERE DID THE REF. C MONEY GO?
Spineless Bill Owens supported that bullsh*t,
now the piece of sh*t Ritter is rubbing our noses in it.
Allen Campbell is right,
You see all we are doing is what they want us to do, that is why Rush, Hannity etc. Get the big $... They spout the hate and twist the facts so there is not a possibility of meeting in the middle. ( I didn't list any left wingers because they don't make near the money and it is difficult to find a station supporting one). Rush makes 33 Million a year to spout his BS. Ed Shultz probably makes $100,000 tops but he is a good opposite.. Or Randy Rhodes.. You see if we are kept at odds and do not come together we will never be able to take back the Government again. I agree with some points from both sides but try to have a civil converation with someone who disagrees with you ploitically and it is not pretty. We need to focus on the person and what they stand for instead of the R or D in front of their names.
Posted by Karl Cheney on November 13, 2007 01:22 PMHow are we going to pay for the War in Iraq? the cost is now at $20K for each family of four.
Posted by on November 13, 2007 01:43 PMGandalf, the reason the medical costs have gotten sky-high is that nobody ever sees the bill. You give them a co-pay and the insurance pays the rest. Do you know how much an office visit costs? Of course not, somebody else is paying the bill. $2 (or more) for an aspirin? So what, someone else is paying the bill. It's so bad now that Hillary wants to make it free. Wait 'til you find out how expensive THAT is going to be.
Posted by clyde on November 13, 2007 01:58 PMdid anyone hear that hillbillary has already said that she cant raise taxes high enough to pay for all of her ideas?
now obama wants to pay more to social security than he does now? wow paying a penny is more than he pays now what he meant to say is that the tax payers need to pay more and more and more and more
Posted by on November 13, 2007 02:01 PMWe should just continue the Bush plan. Don't raise taxes just keep borrowing and borrowing, we wont have to pay it back ever... at least not until the next president and then we can all blame the Dems for raising taxes again ( to pay off the Republican war loans)
Posted by Bush's Accountant on November 13, 2007 02:56 PMBut........wait! It's FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!!
Posted by dan the man on November 13, 2007 04:13 PMI don't think taxes are high enough. Our tax rate should be 100% so that all money is given to the government to allocate as needed.
No, wait. Messing with money at all is what kept the Soviet Union from being a real success. We should abolish all money. Everyone would work towards the common good, and all resources would be shared as needed. We can make this work. Who's with me?
Posted by Captain Scarecrow, the Man of Straw on November 13, 2007 05:29 PMIt cost's money to live in the greatest country on earth. Knowing that, politicians have two choices when it comes to keeping us living the way we are accustomed to. They can either tax the residents or go in debt. Which sounds like the most responsibile choice to make ? We already know what choice Bush made. As will our grand and great grand children.
Posted by leftside on November 13, 2007 05:46 PMHow would you rubs like each family to pay back that $20K for the war?
Paper or plastic?
Posted by jay on November 13, 2007 06:15 PMdemocraps steal from the poor,middle class and the rich to give to themselves and cronies.
Posted by Keith on November 13, 2007 07:18 PMFunny jay,that's the question I had to answer before doing your ugly wife.
Posted by on November 13, 2007 07:24 PMAnon 7:24 (and probably 8:11), I would guess your maturity level to be that of a high school sophmore so why don't you go do your homework and let the adults talk.
Posted by leftside on November 13, 2007 08:30 PMThomas, lest you forget that the budget surplus was due to a Republican controlled house and senate? Those are the ones who forced through the balanced budget amendment and the welfare reform act that your lover boy Clinton fought against but ultimately ended up signing both?
So give all the credit to Clinton you lap dog but know the facts about the surplus before spouting that rubbish.
you really have to wonder how the right wing justifiies their support of a former majority and administration that had unprecedented power to enact sweeping conservative change throughout the country and botched it so badly.
Less Safe.
Less secure fiscally.
Those are just the two biggies.
Posted by jay on November 14, 2007 10:10 AMWHERE'S ALL THE MONEY FROM REF.C?
Posted by RickyLee on November 14, 2007 12:29 PMThis Independent says that when Republicans reign the deficit goes up (as with Bush with his $billions into the dark hole of Iraq) and it is left up to Democrats to balance and reduce the deficit e.g. having the very rich pay their share of taxes and I would welcome rich evangelists pay their fair share of taxes. I'd like for religion to pay its fair share of taxes, a sentiment echoed by Benjamin Franklin. JJ: Do as your god mandates and don't touch a women; masturbate if you have to, but don't touch a woman:
Deicide Corner: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. I Cor. 7
Posted by Richard Grimes: r22037yahoo Deicide/Misanthrope not to Christians but their dogma like Mitt's Mormon on November 14, 2007 03:08 PMI'm so damn tired of hearing that we want no taxes, but want an advanced society anyway. No wonder the Europeans and Canadians are eating our lunch today!
Just keep people in office that will cut our taxes to the same level as most third world countries (about 10%). The result will be what we deserve with our stupid resistance to paying for an infrastructure.