Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

Reasons to agree : The government should not try to fix prices. The government should not try to say people's houses are not expensive enough. The government should allow those who want to buy a house to determine its value. The government can try to spur innovation through smart growth, but it can't buy all the foreclosed homes. The government created a housing bubble when it made laws that forced banks to lend money to people who couldn't afford it.  Some efforts by states may be justifiable in promoting affordable housing, but the Federal government is best at trying to promote affordable housing.  Government should try to promote affordable housing, not try to raise. State Governments can take targeted actions to offset infrastructure and education expenses, but should avoid clumsy, nationwide, and expensive approaches. The state government should free up unused public property at times to make housing properties available, thereby supporting affordable housing. Still, ...

Reasons to agree : The concept of Italy failing is  ridiculous . This isn't a game with winners and  looser .  Italy  may be less  successful , or more  successful but it probably be more successful than 1/2 of this planet's countries. They are more successful than most countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. If we are supposed to rescue Italy, we should probably rescue the rest of the world first.  Italy isn't helping us in Afghanistan, why should we help them?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force Greece isn't helping us much in Afghanistan. Why should we help them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force They have the capacity to deal with that themselves.  We shouldn't try to do impossible things. It is impossible for the United States Government to make another large economy successful.  Italy is a very large economy.  W...

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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Reasons to agree : Cutting improper payments in half could save more than $60 billion a year. We are broke .  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 : Another big category is overcharging state Medicaid programs. That accounts for the most settlements, 43 percent of all violations. Most of these violations took the form of companies publishing inflated benchmark prices that set the base for Medicaid drug payments. "In some cases, state Medicaid programs were paying providers as much as 12 times the actual cost of a drug," the new report says. We are broke .  Website that agree http://www.taf.org/whyfca.htm http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/the-government-fraud-racket/ http://www.gao.gov/fraudnet/fraudnet.htm http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/12/17/132134328/when-it-comes-to-government-fraud-health-care-now-tops-defense http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2011/11/watchdog-agency-finds-fraud-mismanagement-few-shovel-ready-stimulus-jobs/1320694281.column Score : # of reasons to agree: 2 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reasons...

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 ...