{"id":2450504,"date":"2019-10-29T23:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/vote-yes-on-colorados-proposition-cc\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:25:29","slug":"vote-yes-on-colorados-proposition-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/vote-yes-on-colorados-proposition-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote yes on Colorado\u2019s Proposition CC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are very lucky to live in Colorado! Our state is breathtakingly beautiful, recreational opportunities abound and the economy is booming. Colorado\u2019s livability isn\u2019t a secret \u2014 our population is growing briskly.<\/p>\n

This Election Day, Tuesday, voters have an important opportunity to ensure the most basic needs of our growing communities \u2014 education and transportation \u2014 are funded.<\/p>\n

A \u201cYes\u201d vote on Proposition CC will give our state lawmakers the ability to invest in critical public services without raising any new taxes.<\/p>\n

Currently, the state is prohibited from collecting revenue above a certain cap and must refund any excess to taxpayers. The cap\u2019s outdated formula has hamstrung our state budget for years, evidenced by a $9 billion-plus backlog of transportation projects, a decline in K-12 per-pupil spending and a slashing of investment in higher education.<\/p>\n

A majority of Colorado\u2019s counties (80%), cities and towns (84%) and school districts (98%) have succeeded in removing the ill-conceived revenue cap. Now it\u2019s time for us to remove the cap statewide.<\/p>\n

The refund for 2019 is estimated to be $26 for the lowest wage-earner to $79 for the highest. It is not unreasonable to say that for most of us, that is a small price to pay to prevent further damage to the sustainability and health of our communities.<\/p>\n

Please vote \u201cYes\u201d on Proposition CC and allow Colorado to make desperately needed and past due investments in education and transportation, for a better future for us all.<\/p>\n

For a more details about Prop CC, visit the Bell Policy Center website at bellpolicy.org\/2019\/10\/10\/2019-ballot-guide.<\/p>\n

Joy Harrison<\/p>\n

Eagle<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are very lucky to live in Colorado! Our state is breathtakingly beautiful, recreational opportunities abound and the economy is booming. Colorado\u2019s livability isn\u2019t a secret \u2014 our population is growing briskly. This Election Day, Tuesday, voters have an important opportunity to ensure the most basic needs of our growing communities \u2014 education and transportation […]<\/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-2450504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 11:11:12","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'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\/2450504","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=2450504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450530,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450504\/revisions\/2450530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}