Douglas Bruce, author of the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, is pictured in 2005. (Denver Post file)
How many more articles and letters do we need to prove that TABOR needs to be overturned? Here are two recent headlines in The Denver Post: “If we had a monorail on I-70,” “Eliminate corporate giveaways” and “Leadville to close St. Vincent Hospital.”
I grew up in Leadville, and all of my family was cared for on occasion at St. Vincent. How heartbreaking to know that this mountain community will now lose some people they love due to this funding problem. And Gov. John Hickenlooper is promising to give back $200 million to Coloradans in the form of a TABOR rebate. Spread among approximately 4 million citizens, thatap about $200 apiece, not enough to make a house payment.
How about some funding for all that mental health care that we need, the focus of The Denver Postap recent series? (Thank you for doing this series. It was very touching on so many levels, and especially on a personal one: My husband is severely mentally ill.)
Emily Martin, Broomfield
This letter was published in the Dec. 8 edition.
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