Quote:
Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
But Casino money is for the Schools!!
|
It was almost comical a few years back here in Colorado. Some vote came up for a tax increase that was "to be devoted to highways and schools". (Technically, it was the continuation of a temporary tax that was expiring, but same thing.)
I didn't vote for it, but here in Denver you could tax anything and it would pass. You could propose a tax on tax payments to be used for political campaigns to further increase taxes on tax payment taxes and it would pass.
So of course this passed. And I think it was about a week past the election when the governor said, "Okay, this is going to highways and schools. And now we're going to cut the base budgets for highways and schools by a remarkably similar amount and use that extra money however we want."
Honest to god, I have no idea how any person with intelligence votes for a new tax in Colorado or anywhere else.