TO: HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE
RE: HB26-1036 LOCAL TAXES ON VACANT RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
SPONSORS: TITONE, VELASCO
JEANY RUSH, COLORADO CONSTITUENT 2-2-26
VOTE: NO
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATURE:
It’s time for you to pack your bags and move to Russia, or Jupiter!
Well wait, I doubt Russia would have you!
When I was young, having my children, and full of Hope, I watched a movie called Dr. Zhivago. The writer was not allowed to leave Russia to receive an award. He had to sneak out small copies of this. It became a movie, and a stunning reminder of what goes horribly wrong with Marxism, socialism, communism, and dictatorial rule of a people! Murder and mayhem ensue! It’s is time you all watched this movie. The Bolsheviks took over all housing, food, well everything. They took homes, divided them by people, and brought in outsiders to take over all homes by how many they thought should fit. All human rights were suspended! It is obvious you all identify more with the Bolsheviks than you do with American Constitutional Freedoms. Rights of Life Liberty and Land Ownership are apparently a foreign concept to the majority of this body! SHAME ON YOU! THIS WILL NOT STAND, NOR WILL IT BE SUSTAINABLE!
We need another housing tax authority and another local entity to impose another excise or property tax as much as we need an extreme case of diarrhea! Your constant circumventing of Tabor, or any relief for the citizens of Colorado is not just unconstitutional, it has become blatantly criminal! You created the budget deficits with insane over-government activity! Under your reign of terror, Colorado has increased government employment by 189%. That is 3 times faster than private employment. This is not sustainable, since the taxpayers pay all these salaries! What happens when you run out of Other Peoples Money?
The state, and the local communities need to learn to live within their means, and stop piling on more and more entities and middlemen/women who are sucking the entire State of Colorado Dry!
Short term, rental, ownership, residential second property, whatever terms you want to use, are not your right to interfere in the commerce of this issue. It is none of your stinking’ business if people own one or two residential, or other properties! They already pay taxes on every breath they take. This entire bill is insane, OVERREACH, AND NOT IN keeping with our right to own property, land, or anything within the law. You are simply dictating what someone can do with their second home, etc. Like I said, Marxist dictating if you don’t use it, we will take it, tax it, fill it. When in the World did You Think you were GODS? This is a legislative and legal nightmare and talk about liability!
Add your encroachment into unincorporated, incorporated municipalities! Your Playbook is the Communist Manifesto, not the Constitution of the US. Everything you want to create already exists, but you want to make it on steroids, loans, boundaries, voting, bonds, more boards, more authorities, determine for what $ is spent, basically take away any authority by the public. The added rights you are giving to this entire process is something out of a nightmare. The average citizen cannot possibly follow all of this. This is something a bunch of legal goons and bots concocted! I TOTALLY OBJECT TO THIS INSANITY!
JEANY RUSH,
COLORADO CONSTITUENT 2-2-26
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