What’s more important: good schools, good roads or well-funded law enforcement?

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to choose. Each would have the resources to function at a high level within the existing funding framework.

A robust state economy is generating plenty of tax revenues, but our state government’s labyrinthine budgeting process – complicated by constitutionally mandated spending caps and taxpayer rebates – has consistently come up short allocating resources for roads and schools.The Legislature appears to be ready to bite the bullet and ask voters to approve a tax hike to fund transportation improvements. The amount of the ask might change depending on whether a separate measure to convert the state’s Hospital Provider Fee to an enterprise fund passes.

Read more at The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.