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diracwinsagain252 karma

Colorado should be proud of the progress it's made on child and teen marijuana use since legalization. See this plot from Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/following-marijuana-legalization-teen-drug-use-is-down-in-colorado/?utm_term=.2c472b4f57a3

diracwinsagain57 karma

I've decided to take over for the useless OP here. If you're making that much you should qualify for tax credits which will cap the amount you have to pay in premiums. You can adjust to make sure you get under the income limits with a SEP IRA or other tax vehicle. Please shoot me a pm and we can get this fixed.

diracwinsagain33 karma

Governors have to make quickly make decisions on a very wide range of policy issues, often outside their area of expertise.

What is your process for making decisions and educating yourself on policy issues? How do you ensure that you don't become intransigent on an issue if new data becomes available, or if you came to the wrong conclusion?

Edit: Have you recently changed your mind on any of your closely held beliefs? If so, which one? If not, are you certain you are testing them often enough?

diracwinsagain20 karma

I've decided to take over for the useless OP here. This is a totally solveable problem, but might require you to adjust your 401(k)/SEP IRA contributions (depending on your employment status), which means you'll have to act fast. Please shoot me a pm and we can get this fixed.

diracwinsagain17 karma

Hi Jared! I'm a resident of Boulder and I just have two quick questions:

Recent research (http://www.nber.org/papers/w24107) appears to show that occupational licensing is creating significant barriers to migration around the US.

Other obstacles to migration include restrictions to building housing, a high level overview is available in the recent NYT piece What Happened to the American Boomtown (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/upshot/what-happened-to-the-american-boomtown.html).

Economists estimate that far more GDP/productivity is lost to lack of migration in the US than, for example, the benefits of tax reform. Would you consider either supporting the ALLOW act to reduce occupational licensing while in congress, or support by-right development in Colorado to help ameliorate this problem?