Don’t give our state legislators a forever
blank check! Vote no on Proposition CC.
What do you do with those blank checks that
your credit card company sends you periodically? Perhaps you’ve used one when
times were tight and there was an emergency expense you couldn’t avoid. The
fine print on the check makes it clear that this is indeed a loan, and as a
consequence of using the check there are fees incurred in addition to interest
payments if the debt isn’t repaid by a specific time. Responsible adults
understand the risks associated with writing these checks. Would you sign the
whole stack of them and hand them out to random neighborhood kids trick or
treating at your house so they could use them as they please, perhaps holding
onto them until they want to buy their first car or pay their college tuition?
If you vote yes on Proposition CC, you are figuratively giving a forever blank
check to our state legislators. I’m not kidding. This is a very sinister attempt
to further deteriorate the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, our right to have a say in
how our state government spends money. The intent of TABOR was to keep our
state spending within our means, a reasonable expectation for a government or a
family. Our lawmakers have found clever (aka dishonest) ways to work around
these limits. Our state senators, representatives and governor should be
accountable to all of us, the taxpayers who pay their salaries. Proposition CC
is a permanent, not temporary, suspension of our refunds. Don’t give our state legislators a forever
blank check that our children and their children will have to pay back. Vote no
on Proposition CC.