This election season voters are being asked to make laws governing wildlife management, the state budget, and occupational licensure. Don’t we pay people to do this work? Turns out we do! Colorado legislators earn an average of $42,738 a year to pour over information about the costs and benefits of proposed laws, hear from stakeholders, and balance competing interests. Yet, thanks to the much-abused initiative process, voters are being asked to conduct ballot box biology, ballot box budgeting, and ballot box business regulation without all of the information and with none of the pay legislators receive. The past two Sundays, this column has explained how Propositions 127, 130, and KK and Denver Ordinance 309 will harm Colorado communities.
Comment on Opinion: We elect people to make laws like Prop. 129. Vote no.
Krista Kafer, Denver Post
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 8:01am
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