Funding pet projects

Here is a letter to the editor in reply to a Perspective piece in the Sunday Denver Gazette. One addition to “Our TABOR — our refunds”.

I agree with everything Michael Fields said in his Perspective article. I would add one item to this discussion and all discussions that will follow it. I would ask that these discussions start with the following: If education is so important that it warrants getting rid of the TABOR refunds, why has the legislature not funded it sufficiently already? Feel free to change “education” for any of the pet projects.

Maybe we need to pass an amendment that allows the voters to provide spending priorities for the legislature. This might stop this nonsense.

George Towner

Littleton