Crazy Colorado Tax Policy

This article in National Crosstalk is well worth reading, in that it illustrates what happens when the sensible, democratically-expressed desires of the citizenry to invest public resources in important things like higher education run up against mind-bendingly foolish, anti-democratic conservative tax policies like Colorado's TABOR law. The result: a pointlessly complicated, Rube Goldbergian higher education funding system that accomplishes nothing other than confusing everyone and wasting resources that could be better spent elsewhere. Seriously, you really have to read it to believe it, this is full-scale, through-the-looking-glass public policy craziness.