Poll Results:

About half want to hold yearly increases in the local share to the rate of inflation or, presumably, less than inflation. Roughly a third are willing to spend a modest amount above inflation (one or two percent), and a fifth of you would spend four percent or more above inflation. (In recent years, with inflation being about two to three percent, this last group would have chosen an annual increase in local spending of six percent or greater!)

In other words, roughly half of those participating in the poll are probably sympathetic to the TABOR ("Taxpayer Bill of Rights") proposal, which calls for spending increases to be limited to the rate of inflation, with adjustments for population shifts. TABOR is on the ballot statewide in November; the debate about TABOR is just beginning. We'll have more on TABOR as the discussion develops.