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Hi Kid: Where Is the Money Tree Forest?
Featuring: Throwing Money Around, Sweden's Lack of Choice, and Local Child Sex Changes
Hello Hi Kid Fans & Friends! Thanks for sticking with us and your commitment to coming back for more. We hope these newsletters bring value to you as you consider how the big world impacts our small world of Northern Colorado. This week we consider some tough topics. First, does money actually grow on trees or is it just an annoying thing our parents said to us when we were kids? Second, we wonder about choices and what happens when the choice ends up to be no choice at all. Also, we have an interesting twist from our Children’s Hospital Colorado “Is This a Good Idea” segment from last week—this time it’s in our backyards! Thanks for helping us grow! Reach out on X with any ideas about conversations you wish were happening locally. Join us on Telegram HERE or find us on X @HiKidHey. Let’s connect!
LET’S TALK ABOUT IT…
Where Does All the Money Go?
We are worried that all those 80s dads may have been wrong. Maybe money DOES grow on trees. Perhaps our local governments think our yards are full of these money trees. After all, they seem to have no problem asking us to pluck millions more of our tree dollars and hand them over to them to use.
Larimer County wants $17,200,000 MORE.
The City of Loveland wants $27,000,000 MORE.
The City of Fort Collins wants $12,600,000 MORE.
Poudre School District wants $49,000,000 MORE.
Thompson School District wants $45,000,000 MORE.
Altogether local government agencies are asking for more than $150,000,000 dollars from our neighbors and us. That is $150 million that would otherwise be in the control of private citizens-using the funds to pay their steep electric bills, hire teenagers to mow their yards, or enjoy a fun night out in Old Town.
This makes us wonder if that money can do more good in the hands of the local people, or if the money is more beneficial to us all when it is controlled by government agencies?