Boulder's Questionable Experiment of Cash Handouts

Boulder, a city known for its misguided progressive policies, has once again demonstrated its commitment to wasteful spending and misplaced priorities. Thanks to the supposedly generous handout of $70,000 from the Millennium Trust of the Community Foundation Boulder County, Boulder County is eagerly embarking on a fantastical guaranteed-income pilot project known as Elevate Boulder.

Under this ill-conceived experiment, 200 low-income households in Boulder will receive $500 per month in direct cash assistance for a period of two years. Proponents of this project argue that it will promote financial stability and equity within the community, while opponents believe cash payments will only serve to further enable dependency and discourage hard work and personal responsibility.

Elizabeth Crowe, the Deputy Director of the city's Housing and Human Services department, claims that traditional financial assistance programs come with too many restrictions or conditions. Elevate Boulder, on the other hand, places blind faith in the recipients and assumes that they know best how to spend this money.

Additionally, the Boulder City Council has allocated a whopping $3 million of the taxpayers' money from the American Rescue Plan Act funding to support this experiment. Instead of using these funds for initiatives that would benefit the entire community, Boulder officials have chosen to gamble with taxpayer dollars on a project with no clear outcomes or guarantees of success.

Several Colorado non-profits have quietly complained that any invitation to the public to contribute to the Elevate Boulder Fund only takes money away from other successful charities that have a proven track record.