September 25, 2008 by
Eric In the last decade, generous Coloradans approved additional funding for K-12 education, increased tobacco taxes and Referendum C-the state’s largest tax increase in history. In addition, taxpayers agreed to numerous local and regional tax increases, such as RTD’s FasTracks.
Also, in the last couple of sessions the state legislature raised numerous fees bringing the state millions of additional dollars. Read the rest of this entry »
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All levels of our government are based upon the principle that we are a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Government that conducts its business in secret and without the scrutiny of the public leads to corruption and inefficiencies. That is why each political party and its candidates must commit itself to supporting candidates, programs, and policies that put every government entity’s checkbook register (of all receipts and all expenditures) online in an easily searchable format. Read the rest of this entry »
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“We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, and consequently to control them.”
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