What I Learned From C And D
The fight over C and D really revealed the great philosophical divide between the “small government” folks and everyone else. I believe most Coloradoans saw TABOR as a means of forcing the government to be careful with our tax dollars. Now, most of us wonder whether, with TABOR in place, we can pay for schools and roads and important social programs.
The small government crowd didn’t and doesn’t want government involved in those things in the first place. The draconian effects of the “ratchet-down” mechanism that occurred because of our recession, though surprising to the rest of us, were not an oversight. They were part of an intentional strategy to achieve small-government policy objectives that would have been impossible to achieve directly.