Re: Colorado Funding for C&TS

Dick, thanks much for responding. I fully understand that these are your opinions based on your own understanding of things. Nevertheless, I appreciate knowing what drives your position. A couple of things...
What we have learned is that the legal precedents are clear that a state cannot unilaterally alter the terms of a duly executed compact with another soverign state...
That’s been my understanding as well. Seems pretty much incontrovertible. What's been less obvious to me is how to get something when there’s nothing. This...
If so, Colorado ought to find a way to allocate funds to the C&TS on what is catergorized as a "TABOR Exempt" basis (see the Colorado Long Bill for examples).
...is the new piece to me. I wasn’t aware that there was a mechanism for allocating out of the TABOR surplus (which is indeed still sizeable) for certain “exempt” items. That, for me at least, is the potential missing piece. I guess I need to go understand the details of this more clearly. Given this information, I would now at the least be VERY interested in working towards getting an opinion from our (that is Colorado's) AG.
An interesting argument that C passage may actually hurt potential C&TS funding. Again, it’s not an idea others seem to be advancing.
Thanks again for providing clarification. Now, I’d still like to better understand how the yearly figure for the states’ contributions is determined. Clearly a situation similar to what we see now can easily happen again if there’s no means for arbitration between the two states as to needs and ability to meet them.
Scott