Road improvements are great, but not at this high price

Many reasons exist to support the Colorado Transportation Network’s gas-tax initiative, which will face voters on the November ballot. The prospect of billions of dollars spent on the state’s roads appeals to residents and businesses alike. But we must say “no.”We agree that more money must be spent on roads, that spending in recent years has been grossly inadequate, even that the state’s current condition of budget surpluses won’t last forever. But none of those conditions justify the power and extreme level of taxation contemplated in the Colorado Transportation Network initiative. The initiative would increase the state’s gasoline tax by…