Here are some interesting numbers from the Common Sense Policy Roundtable from a decade of state budgets. The Senate debated the budget last week, and deliberations continue this week in the House.

The Common Sense Policy Roundtable, a collection of mostly moderate Republicans supporting the Greenwood Village-based think tank, released “The Colorado State Budget: Then & Now.” Then is 2006. Now is 2016, fiscally speaking for the per-person spending analysis.

The Common Sensers highlighted:

As a share of the total budget, Healthcare Policy and Financing increased from just over 20 percent of the budget in 2006 to nearly 34 percent in 2016, at the expense of departments like Transportation, Public Health and Environment, K-12 education, and Human Services

Over the past decade, the state’s population has grown 17 persons, the while state budget has grown a whopping 40 percent, according to the report. I told you, these are conservatives. Of course they’re going to lead their bullet points with that.

The other bullet points:

The full report is available online, by clicking here.

The Common Sense Policy Roundtable has analyzes legislation and public policy initiatives that pertain to jobs and economic development.

Its board of directors is made up of University of Colorado Regent Heidi Ganahl of Camp Bow Wow; for Republican U.S. SenateJack Graham of Two Trees Partners; Jack Hays of Hays Development; Buz Koelbel of Koelbel & Co.; T. Scott Martin of Rivercrest Capital Management; Charlie McNeil of Nexgen Resources Corp.; Terry Stevinson of Stevinson Group; Lem Smith of Squire Patton Boggs; and Earl Wright, AMG National Trust Bank.