May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
he Regional Transportation District as presently structured is a drag on the Colorado economy. A heavily subsidized government monopoly, RTD sucks millions of tax dollars out of the economy year after year.
READ MOREShould Colorado permit bank ownership across State lines? When this proposal was defeated in the 1986 legislative session, opponents were relative at avoiding its “devastating impact on communities” and its “danger to the economy from concentration of the money supply in the hands of a few giant mega-banks.”
READ MOREColorado is now poised to enter the international trade market, but seriousness is the price of admission. The international market demands that Colorado be committed for the long term.
READ MOREThe first wave of education reform in the 1980s has been largely superficial.
To be really effective, the second wave of reform must be structural.
A system giving parents their choice among public schools would do much to drive substantive reform — without involving private schools and the church state issue.
Home schooling is an educational model whereby the primary academic instruction of children takes place in the childs home, generally by one or both parents but sometimes by another family member or an outside tutor. It was a common means of educating children in early American history.
During much of the twentieth century, home education was practically unheard of in many circles. But during the past decade it has become perhaps the most widely growing phenomenon in American education, including the state of Colorado.
READ MOREThe State of Colorado will collect more than $250 million in higher income taxes from individuals and businesses in 1987 as a side-effect of federal tax reform.
Taxpayers face an average increase of 33% unless the legislature acts.
This shortfall in family budgets has been misleadingly described as a “windfall” by the spending lobbies, leaving many Coloradans thinking the money will come from Washington rather that their own pockets.