A Conversation with Colorado Governor Jared Polis

I mean, well, and so, OK, so let's talk about the ballot.

And I was going to say I didn't I wasn't going to ask you necessarily take a position on on the different ballot measures.

But

I don't think I've reviewed them all.

There's like how many, 16 of them or 17 of them or something.

I don't even know.

I think there might be 14 now.

Yeah.

I mean, mostly there's a few terrible ones.

And like I said, the biggest existential danger to the state is the $2.7 billion tax increase that also raises taxes for low-income veterans and seniors.

And at the same time, along with another initiative, which I support, which would set the income rate of 4.4, would actually lead to devastating cuts to education.

I mean, people think, oh, progressive tax, it means more money for the state.

It actually means $500 or $600 million less for the state if the other good initiative passes, which it will.

It's very popular.

It just makes sure that we have a voter say over any tax increase over 4.4.

So that's the existential one.

There's a conservation one.

There's NN, which is about surplus money, and I've supported measures like that in the past and how we can better use surplus money to support our schools and early childhood education.

And then there's all the weird non-fiscal ones.

There's two on transgender.

There's fentanyl.

There's another bad one I want to highlight.

There's a bad one on it puts the right to hunt in our Constitution.

Hunting is great.

And so, you know, it's a way we use it.