AARP and the stuff I have learned…
Did you know that the expiration date on drugs is not calculated scientifically at all? In fact, it’s the pharmaceutical companies themselves that come up with the date; and without much more than a guess. No testing is done. Of course it would make sense for them to shorten that “valid” time span, wouldn’t it?
TABOR = Taxpayers Bill of Rights. The anti-tax crowd is pushing this one and Colorado bought into it in 1992. Colorado has the nations 7th highest per capita income but it has a few other notable bits of data. They went from 30th to 50th in teacher salaries. From 24th to 43rd in share of children receiving full vaccinations. From 20th to 40th in percent of adults without health insurance. Has fallen from 26th to 32nd in K-12 education funding. High school graduation rates declined from 76% to 70% in 2004.
Colorado has decided that perhaps TABOR needs a moratorium and so they have dropped it for 5 years, starting this year. You really do (or should) get what you pay for.
TABOR is a topic of conversation in Maine currently. It seems that the Sec. of State allowed signatures that were recieved after a deadline and now it is going to the Maine Supreme Court. Taxes are high here and the return on investment is poor in terms of services. Mostly the taxes are spent on social programs. The wealthy prefer to pay the working people indirectly I guess. It is really stupid.
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