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Re: “Averting a budget smashup” and “The budget crackup, Part II,” Aug. 30 and Sept. 6 Vincent Carroll columns.
Vincent Carroll’s two columns about Colorado’s impending budgetary “crack-up” were spot-on. When TABOR was passed in 1992, I was board president of a small, underfunded rural school district. After reading all the fine print in TABOR, it was easy to understand how an economic downturn could bankrupt small school districts like ours. Knowing full well that TABOR and Amendment 23 could not coexist within the same budgetary confines, I gave Amendment 23 my vote simply because our own school district came so close to insolvency during the early 1990s. Because Colorado is no stranger to economic downturns, our General Assembly should get down to the business of building a substantial rainy-day fund and it should set about the business of bringing TABOR into the 21st century.
The proposition that Colorado can forever be run on a shoestring budget has brought Colorado to the brink of economic crisis several times during the past 20 years. When will people learn that we can’t get something for nothing?
Gary E. Goms, Buena Vista
This letter was published in the Sept. 13 edition.
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