We just passed our state budget for the upcoming year. It is balanced, received bipartisan support, and it required some incredibly challenging decisions.
Colorado is constitutionally required to pass a balanced budget for our state government every year. We have no state debt and we can’t run a deficit — unlike Congress in D.C. which only seems to increase our national debt and never balances its budget.
Each legislative session in Denver, the General Assembly has to make decisions on how to allocate limited resources across state programs and obligations. About 75% of the general fund goes to education, prisons and Medicaid, with the rest split among transportation, public health and a wide range of other services for Coloradans…