Class warfare on the Colorado ballot in November
Everyone knows there’s no such thing as a free lunch. All the same Colorado voters will again be tested this November to see if they know that.
Expectations are that modern, middle-class Coloradans will deny the “no such thing as a free lunch” truism. They will likely double-down on buying their kids “free school lunch,” with other people’s money, without acknowledging what depraved values they are modeling for their children in the process.
Statewide referred measures LL and MM allow the state to keep excess tax revenue from our sputtering, over-budget new “free school lunch” program and increase taxes on families who make more than $300,000...
The election tests our willingness to act on our class envy...
Do we support taking even more money from people we’re jealous of and giving it to, not the neediest, but ourselves — the middle-class families more than able to buy Johnny his own lunchroom sandwich...
This election is a precise proxy vote, a barometer on our tolerance of class resentment, nannyism and central planning...
We passed Prop FF in 2022 to celebrate class warfare and force rich families to buy meals for just slightly less rich families... We can just call it perverse...
Propositions LL and MM place Alexander Fraser Tytler’s argument that democracy is bound to fail under a microscope: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”...