Rocky Mountain High
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
The Denver Post reports that Colorado politicians are bent on evading or simply over-riding the state’s constitutional Taxpayer Bill of Rights (aka TABOR or TEL here in Ohio). Writer John Andrews asked my opinion of what’s at risk if Coloradans acquiesce to these moves:
“Watch out, Colorado. Without TABOR you could end up like Ohio,” warns David Hansen of the Buckeye Institute in Columbus. He describes a “generation-long spending spree” that has turned their low-tax, high-growth state into one with high taxes and no growth, “totally uncompetitive in the 21st century.”
Despite our national march toward socialism, government has nothing to give that it hasn’t first taken away from the private sector. Growing government can only come at the cost of the private sector. Colorado’s TABOR limited the growth of government and as a result, it is a state with jobs, growth and prosperity.
