Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

Assumptions: Good means low cost, and high quality. Transportation includes parking. Not all transportation facilities are "public". For instance privately owned parking garages are part of the equation. Reasons to agree : If you are lucky you can find parallel parking for free around Lincoln Park Zoo. Parking is $1.00 an hour, if you can find any, near Northerly Island. I drove there with 2 bikes in  my car, and my 7 year old son, and we rode to Millennium Park and back.  Kids ride the Metra free on the weekends.  The Water Tower Place Mall does parking validation.  It costs $7 per adult to ride to Chicago Union Station (week-end passes, kids ride free). From there you can walk to a number of places: Millennium Park.  In the summer, kids can play in the fountain. Bring towels, and a change of clothes. It is sort of white trash, but they can change in the bathrooms.  Each time you go down the kids will probably want to look at ...

Website that agree http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/02/repealing-the-davis-bacon-act-would-save-taxpayers-$10-9-billion Reasons to agree : We are broke . Suspending the DBA means hiring five workers at market rates instead of hiring four workers at a 22 percent premium. If we have a limited amount of money, it is better to employ more construction workers than to pay a lot to the few that kiss up to their union bosses. We do have a limited amount of money. We can no longer pretend that we have an unlimited amount of money. We may want to give really high wages to give to everyone, but we shouldn't make rules that require the federal government to overpay their workers.  If Congress is not willing to reduce construction spending, suspending the DBA would make each public construction dollar go 9.9 percent further. This would create more bridges and buildings at the same cost to taxpayers. It would also employ 155,000 more construction workers.  The Davis–Bacon Act ...

  Reasons to agree : We are broke.  Federal jobs have typically had better benefits, but they did not make as much as private sector jobs. Even people who work for the government should acknowledge that our country is going to have a bad future, if our best and brightest work for the government.   With projections of huge federal deficits for years to come, policymakers should scour the budget looking for places to cut spending The OWS protest should look to government with anger at their compensation more so than looking at CEOs.  During the last decade, compensation of federal employees rose much faster than compensation of private-sector employees. The average federal civilian worker now earns twice as much in wages and benefits as the average worker in the U.S. private sector. A recent job-to-job comparison found that federal workers earned higher wages than did private-sector workers in four-fifths of the occupations examined. It is unfair to ask taxpa...

Reasons to agree : The federal government is too big.  Federal spending should not exceed 20% of GDP  (+5). Score : # of reasons to agree: 1 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: - 0 Total Idea Score: 1 Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change

Reasons to agree : (+6) We should return federal programs to the states . Each state should be responsible for caring for their own uninsured . The way medicaid is ran now, it is a right. It is an entitlement. People are gauronteed medicaid, no matter what. People get medicaid, even if the cost doubles every year. With block grants, medical inflation can be limited, but putting a limit that each state gets from the federal program.  We can make it so each state that wants to increase the Medicaid benefit by $1, has to spend an extra dollar.  Score : # of reasons to agree: 3 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 6 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: - 0 Total Idea Score: 10 Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change

Reasons to agree : The states are better at innovation than the federal government. The states are better at cost management than the federal government.  When each state has their own program efficiency is improved because people don't see it as free money from other states that they compete with. Each dollar is  valued  more.  The states are better at reduction of fraud than the federal government.  When each state has their own program fraud is reduced because the people running the program don't see it as free money from other states that they compete with. Each dollar is  valued  more.  The 10th amendment doesn't give the federal government the right to have social programs. The founding fathers did not like a very strong centralized power. They tried to prevent the type of government that we have become.  When each state has their own program efficiency is improved because those giving out the benefits are closer to ...

Reasons to agree : It doesn't matter that more money is spent on roads, and air travel than amtrak, because more people travel these methods. The simple fact is that more is spent per mile traveled per person, with each dollar given to amtrak, vs. other methods of Government spending.  According to the United States Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, rail and mass transit are considerably more subsidized on a per passenger-mile basis by the federal government than other forms of transportation; the subsidy varies year to year, but exceeds $100 dollars (in 2000 dollars) per thousand passenger-miles, compared to subsidies around $10 per thousand passenger-miles for aviation (with general aviation subsidized considerably more per passenger-mile than commercial aviation), subsidies around $4 per thousand passenger-miles for intercity buses, and automobiles being a small net contributor through the gas tax and other user fees rather than being subsid...

Reasons to agree : Because we are in debt we must examine all expenses and ask "Is this program so critical that it is worth borrowing money to pay for it?" 20% of GDP is near the tax revenue our economy generates when healthy.  In 2010 federal spending accounted for 24.3% of federal spending.  The federal government should not spend more on social programs than the states.   We can cut 1/2 of a trillion dollars from the 2016 federal budget.   Score : # of reasons to agree: 5 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: - 0 Total Idea Score: 5 Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change

Reasons to agree :  Debt can kill us. Videos That agree Score : # of reasons to agree: 1 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: - 0 Total Idea Score: 1 Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change