Traffic moves along on Interstate 25 north of Denver during the morning rush hour on March 20, 2014. (RJ Sangosti, Denver Post file)
Re: “Smart growth, not anti-growth,” June 25 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Dick Sugg suggests that smart growth would include “state and federal governments increas[ing] needed revenue to pay for more free traffic lanes … .” How would Sugg fund these free thoroughfares?
We moved from Wisconsin in 2007. In 2006, Wisconsin voted down a TABOR proposal. The deciding argument? We didn’t want to become “like Colorado.” Colorado’s unwillingness to adequately fund state services — e.g., road maintenance and education — is recognized nationwide. TABOR prohibits increasing tax revenue without voter approval, and Coloradans have shown themselves unwilling to approve most of the funding needed to adequately maintain our infrastructure.
So, who should pay for roads and other services for the citizens of Colorado? Itap time to put this self-inflicted, damaging taxation policy to rest. Don’t trust our legislators to do the job? Elect someone else. Thatap the American way.
Pete Lister, Greeley
This letter was published in the July 2 edition.
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