Propositions LL and MM are both touted to solve the problems of the underfunded “free lunch” for all Colorado public school kids. The fact is that these are yet another easy sell to the over 50% of compassionate, unaware Colorado voters to stick just 7% of wage-earning taxpayers earning over $300,000 a year with 100% of the cost “overruns” and massive expansion of a mediocre, state program’s bureaucracies to funnel more money into the feed trough of insatiable, free-spending politicians. 

Why not put out a reasonable and honest proposition for our ballots that show real limits put in place (instead of fanciful goals), an accountable system for real auditing of the program’s merits, and why not ask all taxpayers to chip in? 

The 100-plus agencies and organizations backing the propositions are mainly a mass of hyper-progressive advocacy groups, special interests, and non-profits who in turn, will surely support in various ways our overly-ideological politicians. The listed Initiative Committees and Agents promoting LL and MM are cash-rich, highly-compensated non-monetarily, and include significant funding from entities in Washington D.C.

Who will even impartially audit the results of more state expansion and spending without end for A+ promises being made to voters on behalf of a C- program? Voters rewarding sub-par politicians and their donors just because they are effectively manipulated by election season messaging about hungry kids struggling to learn is demeaning to our democracy. Who feeds them when they skip school or school is not in session? 

This popular, under-funded, crucial and unmodifiable state program can only be fixed by taxing only those who earn too much? Fight politicians’ spending obesity. Vote no on their propositions LL & MM.