30.00% - Good governance means limited governance — small, transparent, and accountable, doing only what the Constitution authorizes: defense, courts, basic infrastructure.
27.50% - The harm of public policy doing too much to address a problem is usually much less than the harm persisting after too little.
22.50% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
20.00% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
Public policy that demonstrably works should be funded regardless of its political source.
30.00% - Earmarks are how politicians buy votes with other people's money — all revenues should go into the general fund with Congress voting on priorities.
22.50% - Regulations written in 1972 are still on the books because nobody made time to review them — reviewing outdated rules is the job.
20.00% - Earmarking revenue guarantees a program gets funded whether it works or not — that's politicians protecting pet projects from scrutiny, not accountability.
50.00% - Public policy that demonstrably works should be funded regardless of its political source.
50.00% - If evidence shows a policy works, funding it should not depend on which budget line covers it.
0.00% - Public policy that is good should be funded regardless of its source.
50.00% - 2012 Colorado Amendment 64