Colorado had some interesting ballot measures this year.
*One would have cut car registration & title fees to no more than $10 per year, combined.
*One would have prohibited the state from incurring *any* debt for *any* reason.
*One would have undone all tax increases from the past several years and then cut property taxes to the point where schools, fire departments and police had virtually no funding, leading to an estimated loss of 73,000 jobs the first year alone (this is particularly noteworthy because Colorado already has a law in place that requires all tax increases to be voted on; thus all of the tax increases that would have been rolled back were all voter-approved tax increases)
*One would have exempted the state from Federal healthcare mandates
*One would have defined 'personhood' as beginning at conception and applied all state laws where the word 'person' is used to the moment of conception, rather than the moment of birth.
Thankfully, all of these measures were defeated by ample margins.
Election time makes me angsty, paranoid and truly brings out the worst in my personality, and I'm very relieved that it's over with for now.
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