Already a quarter billion in the hole,
woke Denver wants to keep digging
theAspenbeat.com,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
7/31/2025 10:18:15 AM
Denver is in financial trouble. They ran a $50 million deficit this year, which is projected to balloon to $200 million next year. Denver’s expenses are systematically exceeding its revenues.
Real-world entities would address this problem with a combination of (1) increasing their revenues and (2) decreasing their expenses.
But Denver is not a real-world entity. It’s a government entity. It plans to do what governments do in government-world: It plans to borrow money.
A lot of it. They’re putting on the ballot a bond proposal amounting to almost a billion dollars. By the time the bonds are paid off with interest years down the road, it would amount to nearly two billion.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 7/31/2025 10:21:20 AM (No. 1984892)
They have Californicated Colorado, mostly in the Denver and nearby areas. The infection is terrible, and the damage severe.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 7/31/2025 10:35:26 AM (No. 1984905)
Behind closed doors, the plan is to borrow the money, make the payments for two years, and then pray that a Dem is back in the White House so that the Feds will pick up the unpaid amount.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/31/2025 10:50:55 AM (No. 1984910)
Its not just Denver. My sister's family has a place in Arrowhead, near Vail. She tells me its become insufferable with all the NewYorkers and their liberal politics/attitudes.
17 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/31/2025 10:57:34 AM (No. 1984912)
This is always the plan of the Democrats, create large deficits to justify tax increases.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
weejun 7/31/2025 11:03:02 AM (No. 1984917)
Colorado: a once beautiful state going in the dumpster. Liberals ruin everything they touch. I have a combined 47 years of residency in Colorado, and I have watched the state’s steady deterioration with sadness: increasing crime (and I am sorry, libertarians, but it is directly traceable to legalized marijuana, combined with Soros-type DAs and judges and criminal illegals); homelessness; poor roads; rising housing costs; etc. Colorado used to be a red state, but the dems adopted a successful “takeover and convert” strategy, and now they are firmly entrenched. I cannot see any reasonable path to unseating these California-trained dems, and the state will continue its downward spiral. I would leave in a heartbeat (as many have already done) were it not for the fact that my kids and their kids all live here.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
VietVet68 7/31/2025 11:12:31 AM (No. 1984919)
Denver seems to be desperately trying to become the Los Angeles of the Rocky Mountains. You have to hand it to these blue state/blue city democrats, they're dumber than a box of rocks but they can't see it. This is the end result of placing ideology before logic.
19 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/31/2025 11:22:03 AM (No. 1984922)
Everything #5 said applies to me.
When I moved to Colorado 38 years ago, it was a different place. I could get anywhere in town in 20 minutes. Colorado had ONE area code for all the phones; they got another one a year later. I went into a gun store and asked what was involved in buying a handgun; the proprietor said
“walk through my front door - bring money.” I-25 going to Denver had two lanes each way, and it wasn’t crowded. Democrats had some modicum of sense.
Democrats have now turned Denver into a shitehole. I haven’t been downtown in over five years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 7/31/2025 11:33:38 AM (No. 1984929)
Colorado has fallen. In 2000, Colorado had a two GOP senators, a GOP governor, and Republicans controlled the state legislature. By about 2006, all that flipped.
“takeover and convert”
That strategy was largely financed by Pat Stryker and Jerod Polis.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/31/2025 11:46:09 AM (No. 1984932)
I have to say this was the most Refreshing Read I've been lucky enough to come across in a long time! I love Mr. Beaton's take on things! That said, he is spot on! My daughter and Family live in Bailey, CO. They are a Young couple raising three kids, They live in a rural area so they don't have much to say about Denver, other than they would NEVER live there! Too Bad. Last time I visited Evergreen, I thought it was a Beautiful Little Town that looked like a Hallmark Christmas Card! Too bad the Democrats can't be run out of Town so that the People can enjoy the Beauty, but then, I guess it's the People who VOTE these Democrats into office! Sad but true!!
12 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/31/2025 12:41:15 PM (No. 1984953)
$2 Billion if it is ever paid off.
Who would be stupid enough to loan money to an entity that is borrowing money to pay the bills.
I know the answer. The United States. But the United States just prints more ,Colorado can't do that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/31/2025 12:57:22 PM (No. 1984966)
All the big cities are ran by Democrats, and all are in the red.
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