{"id":2450268,"date":"2019-10-23T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/pass-prop-cc-end-tabor-limits\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T08:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:39:31","slug":"pass-prop-cc-end-tabor-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/pass-prop-cc-end-tabor-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass Prop CC, end TABOR limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Colorado has the best economy in the country, with record corporate profits and tourism revenue, but investments in our schools, teachers, roads and bridges consistently rank among the worst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Why? When statewide revenues exceed an arbitrary limit, the state is forced to send a refund check to individuals. This has nothing to do with our tax refunds when we overpay our taxes; these refunds only happen in the best of years, and we haven\u2019t had one since 2005. Next year, in part because of our thriving economy and this outdated budget law, Coloradans are looking at relatively small, temporary refunds between $27-$44, which will go away completely when the next recession hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As a result of this provision, our roads and bridges fall into disrepair while our teachers need to dig into their own pockets to pay for school supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Proposition CC is asking voters to invest this money the state already collects on voter-approved priorities in three specific areas: transportation, higher education and K-12 education, to the tune of $264 million for roads and schools next year alone, and likely more the next year. We can do it with no new taxes and unprecedented transparency and accountability, with annual, independent audits so Coloradans can see exactly how the money is spent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Voting \u201cye\u201ds on CC is an investment in the long-term health of our public schools, with no new taxes. It won\u2019t fix all our problems, but it\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Vote \u201cyes\u201d on Prop CC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Elaine Gantz Berman<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Former member, Colorado State Board of Education<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Stephen Berman<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Former president, American Academy of Pediatrics<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/pass-prop-cc-end-tabor-limits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado has the best economy in the country, with record corporate profits and tourism revenue, but investments in our schools, teachers, roads and bridges consistently rank among the worst. Why? When statewide revenues exceed an arbitrary limit, the state is forced to send a refund check to individuals. This has nothing to do with our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 12:07:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450291,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450268\/revisions\/2450291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}