Victor Mitchell in Gubernatorial campaign websites


On Budget & Economy: To save jobs, we must halt any kind of tax increase

Feeling he could accomplish more for Colorado and the business community outside the legislature, he turned his attention to founding an organization, Save Colorado Jobs, that lead the statewide campaign to defeat Prop 103 in 2011, a ballot measure that would have increased both the state income and sales tax rates, and been the largest tax increase in Colorado's history.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

On Budget & Economy: In an over regulated Colorado, regulations need to be cut

Colorado has become horribly over regulated, on day one I plan to bring in a team of the smartest best brightest people who work in private industry here in Colorado. And those people are gonna be tasked with one thing which is to go through all our regulations and determine which ones can either be cut entirely or need to be materially modified. This is very important because this is stifling innovation and this is stifling the ability for young people to take on vocational carriers.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

On Drugs: Marijuana revenues are being "ripped off" in the status quo

What mostly bothers me about the marijuana amendment 64 is the fact that the revenues are being completely ripped off. There's no transparency in the amount of revenues. There are record pot sails going on today yet we don't even know where the money's going. I'm going to be proposing a bold initiative in which every dollar that comes into the state on marijuana is displayed to all our citizens. Not only how much money is coming in but also where it is going to be allocated.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

On Drugs: THC is dangerous, but voters ok'ed the pot amendment

I think we need a better educational plan and marketing efforts to really enlighten people on the short term and long term and serious effects of marijuana. Including today nearly every week there are children being born with THC in their system. These children are being born with long term cognitive disabilities. But that does not mean that I want to repeal it. I think the voters have spoken.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

On Education: College need to become more affordable in Colorado

Today it's up to $30,000 a year for an in state kid to go to CU. Almost half of that is housing alone. They're ripping our families off, they're ripping these kids off. We need to be doing much better, we need to be lowering the cost of tuition most especially on STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programs].

We need degrees in STEM; we need to make them as affordable as possible for students. We need to encourage them and we need a greater emphasis on remediation.

Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

On Health Care: Insurance is not necessary for primary care

We can get Medicaid spending under control Medicaid has increased by more than 40% since the passage of the unaffordable care act. We're not doing anything to bend the cost of access to affordable care. We should come up with ideas and solutions that are different, that don't always involve insurance. Why do we even need insurance for primary care? I plan to repeal the exchange here in Colorado and replace it with a patient centered health care plan.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

On Health Care: ObamaCare doesn't work for 50% of people today

We hear about the handful of people that are going to lose their insurance under the "Un-Affordable Care Act," but don't talk about the more than 50% of people today, that have insurance, that can't access it like Mark who works for me. He has diabetes. It costs him more than $15,000 a year today to access any service provider between what he has to pay for his co payments his deductibles and his premiums."
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

On Homeland Security: "Big brother government" is terribly intrusive

I don't support any new tax increase I don't care how big or how small. Yes we desperately need infrastructure here in Colorado but Colorado department of transportation is has become terribly political. We can use so much in technology and traffic science today to solve so many of our problems with traffic. I can't stand red light camera systems. In fact, I think it's terribly intrusive. For big brother government to fleece our citizens in the spirit of what they call public safety.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com Jul 2, 2017

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