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Bad news, Spectator fans. It turns out that “tax-averse” Colorado Springs’s budet shortfalls have served as a natural experiment, and the free market has been proved wrong.
COLORADO SPRINGS — This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.
More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.
..etc., etc. It lists more services that will be cut.
The only logical conclusion? Monica Potts:
…anti-tax acolytes never seem to comprehend that the things paid for by all of us together, through taxes, “include a bunch of stuff essential for a sound economy and any chance of achieving what is commonly thought of as the American way of life.
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Pete | 2.3.10 @ 12:13PM
Well, as long as Johnny gets his clean needles....
Jim Zeirke| 2.3.10 @ 12:14PM
Sounds like they are playing the "Washington Monument Game". OK, you wanted tax cuts? Then we're closing the Washington Monument! No talk of cutting bureaucrats, secretaries, perks, etc.
Becky| 2.3.10 @ 12:22PM
There is never enough taxes to pay for the expansion of good intentions.
Jeff | 2.3.10 @ 12:31PM
When Colorado Springs turns into a scene from a Mad Max movie then Potts will have an argument. Until then she is making an unsupported claim.
I less than certain that some extra trash in their parks will cause their social fabric to tear apart. Maybe some enterprising "community activists" can organize a "Clean the Parks Day" with unpaid volunteers. They may even be able to get those volunteers from people who use the parks.
Or just ask the Boy Scouts for help, problem solved.
A Balrog of Morgoth| 2.3.10 @ 12:37PM
"The deep recession bit into Colorado Springs sales-tax collections, while pension and health care costs for city employees continued to soar."
Obviously, this is the fault of people who think they are already taxed enough.
Charles Martel| 2.3.10 @ 12:40PM
Government bureaucracies forced to shrink under budget constraints become like the German Army after Versailles: limited to 100,000 men, but 90,000 of them are officers just waiting around for the contraints to be lifted and "business" to return to normal.
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Marc Jeric| 2.3.10 @ 6:53PM
All government employee unions should be declared illegal, on the basis that they are a conspiracy against the people.
Bruce| 2.4.10 @ 1:32PM
I live in Colorado Springs and we've had to drag our city government kicking and screaming (yet again) into a "live within your means" mindset. Personally, I'm loving that the City is finally responding. We're not impressed by the "gloom and doom" warnings from the politicians and bureaucrats.
paul| 2.26.10 @ 9:57AM
It would be nice if someone would please lay the blame for this mess at the peoples feet who created it. The republicans for the last 30 years have gutted this nation and this is what were left with and no everyone wants to complain as the dems try to put the fire out...go ahead, put the very garbage back into office that created this mess in the fist place...