Consider this sentence: Full-time residents are voting on a new tax on second-home owners, and second-home owners do not get a vote.

Now replace full-time residents with Ford owners and replace “second-home owners” with “Subaru owners.”

The result is: Ford owners are voting on a new tax on Subaru owners, and Subaru owners do not get a vote.

Does that sound fair to you? Or is it the same taxation without representation that launched the Boston Tea Party?

It sounds like bullies stealing from powerless victims to me. Sooner or later the bullies will be coming to steal from you. How will you feel when you end up in a powerless victim group that is singled out for a new tax?

We have been second-home owners in Breckenridge for more than 20 years. We already pay taxes on our property, and everything that we buy when we are there as well as utilities, insurance and HOA fees.
All of that is money spent in the community. And it is substantial.

If the treasury is not raising enough money, then raise taxes on everyone across the board and have a vote on that. The real answer is to reduce spending.