Letters: Colorado deserves real spending transparency

Letters: Colorado deserves real spending transparency

Colorado deserves real spending transparency Coloradans are told every year that budgets are tight and tradeoffs are unavoidable. What taxpayers are rarely shown is the one thing that would justify that trust: clear, itemized information about where state dollars actually go and what they produce. Colorado publishes budgets. It does not publish accountability. Over the last decade, spending has grown, fees have multiplied, and programs have expa…