Let’s Do Away With Taxes — Get the Government Out of Our Lives
January 31, 2010 at 1:59 PM 1 comment
This is the kind of world we will live in if the get-the-government-out-of-my-life types start running the show:
COLORADO SPRINGS — This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.
More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.
Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.
Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.
City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won’t pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.
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ChrisH | February 1, 2010 at 12:29 AM
IIRC Colorado Springs is an upper middle class bedroom community made up of young and not-so-young Republicans. The traffic was already heavy when I was there in 2006 (7?); what will shutting down public transportation do to that? Gawd, so short-sighted. And it will not be such a pleasant community without tended green spaces and flowers. I’m eager to see reports in 3, 6, 12 months detailing complaints. They should be careful what they wish for.