From the 10/23/2024 Courier:

Need a tax diet

As a longtime resident of Woodland Park of 31 years, it seems to me all levels of government, City, County, State to include school districts never seem to have enough money. Property taxes have skyrocketed, so has auto and homeowners insurance, (if you can get it).

Look at your receipt when you leave the grocery store, check your utility and cable bill at the taxes and fees added on. Look at your property tax bill, we pay a county, city, RE-2 School tax, along with a Ute Pass Regional Health tax, along with some others. Now they want more.

This went on in California in the 1970s until Proposition 13 was passed. The government used scare tactics to try and fool voters into thinking essential services would disappear. Fortunately it didn’t work. It’s time for Government to go on a tax diet.

Bill Huffor Sr., Woodland Park