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Gabe Evans: “Government doesn't give anybody anything for free. It all…”

Featuring: Gabe Evans, Republican | U.S. Representative, Colorado's 8th Congressional District

August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall

Published August 17, 2023 | Video Starts at 42:42

You know, the economist saying that I got in college was Tinstaffle. There's no such thing as a free lunch. The government's giving you something free. Government doesn't give anybody anything for free. It all comes from taxes. So if you're getting something for free, it's actually coming out of your taxes. And the more free stuff that the government gives you, that means the more taxes they have to collect. (42:42–42:47)

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“I was actually a staffer down at the state capitol almost 20 years ago.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 06:45-06:50
“They [Democrats] were able to get a lot of this stuff passed [with 46 votes].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 08:07-08:08
“They [Democrats] used Rule 14 and Rule 16 to shut us up.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 08:07-16:03
“They [Democrats] made abortion so easy to get in Colorado that now not. There's really nowhere else for them to go there.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 08:07-15:30
“Colorado's number one state in the nation for auto theft.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:31-09:35
“We're the number two state in the nation for property crimes.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:34-09:37
“We've moved up from number 27 to number 16 relative to the other states for violent crime.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:43-09:50
“In 2021, Denver actually beat San Francisco [in homicides].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:49-09:53
“Denver almost had double the homicide rate of San Francisco [per capita in 2021].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 10:04-10:11
“One party in Colorado rules everything [by super majority margins].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 11:32-11:35
“Republicans in Colorado are at a century-long low point.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:20-12:29
“We have 19 Republicans in the state House to 46 Democrats.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:29-12:33
“We have 12 Republicans in the state Senate to 23 Democrats.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:32-12:37
“We have zero statewide office holders [who are Republicans].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:36-12:40
“We saw the Democrats push more big government, more spending, more regulation, and more tax on freedom.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 13:24-13:38
“They had five big bills that came after guns.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 13:45-13:48
“Colorado already had some of the most pro-abortion laws anywhere in the country.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 15:15-15:22
“This year, dead in their sights was crisis pregnancy centers.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 15:29-15:34
“The state wanted to take all that [local control] away from the local level, take that away from the city of Brighton, take that away from…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 16:38-16:49
“We were able to stop the land grab bill.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 17:48-17:51
“Property taxes in the state of Colorado are based on three things.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 18:14-18:19
“The value for that tax purpose was determined on June 30, 2022.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 19:38-19:44
“June 30, 2022 was really the top of that bubble.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 20:09-20:14
“The Republican solution was very simple. It was a seven-page bill.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 20:34-20:41
“The Colorado Taxpayer Bill of Rights says that any time that government wants to raise taxes, it has to go to a vote of the people on the…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 21:47-21:52
“The state government can only spend money based on an equation that incorporates population growth times inflation.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:11-22:22
“Government in Colorado has already grown about 57%, even when you adjust it for population times inflation.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:32-22:42
“The state budget was about $15 billion [in 2005].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:42-22:48
“Last year, the state passed a 40, 41, 41 or 43, I can't remember, that was over 40 billion dollar budget.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:55-23:05
“This year, the Democrats forced through a 38.5 billion dollar budget.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 23:04-23:10
“Last year was somewhere around $4 billion that was refunded out [due to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 23:49-23:55
“This year it's forecasted to be about the same, about $4 billion [in refunds].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 23:54-23:59
“Proposition HH allows them to keep all of your taxpayer Bill of Rights mandated refunds.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 25:52-26:05
“If Proposition HH passes this fall, the first year that it goes into effect, the state will be allowed to keep about $130 million that…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 25:53-26:05
“In 10 years the state could keep about 1.3, about $1.3 billion [annually].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 26:14-26:24
“In 30 years, the state can keep an additional $17 billion annually that should have been refunded back to the folks.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 26:23-26:34
“46% of Coloradans actually returned a Republican ballot in 2022.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 27:23-27:30
“The Greeley House district, out of the tens of thousands of people who voted up there, the Democrats won that seat by 299 votes.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 27:30-27:38
“If the Republicans had gotten there was about 15,000 additional votes properly distributed through a lot of these very close races, instead…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 27:55-28:08
“46% of Coloradans who voted Republican want smaller governance, more fiscal restraints, more freedom, less regulatory burden.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 28:13-28:25
“Economic forecasts say that in the next three or four years, there's about $10 billion that should be refunded back to the citizens.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 29:09-29:18
“They're driving out insurance companies from the state of Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 32:09-32:13
“If you drive a Kia or a Hyundai, there's certain makes, models and years of those vehicles where you cannot get insurance for it near the…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 32:13-32:22
“We haven't won an election, you know, a big election in Colorado since 2014.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 44:53-44:58
“One side spent $6 for every $1 the other side sent in this last election.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 46:35-46:41
“We have a Communist Party in the state of Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 48:21-48:27
“27% of Coloradans are registered Democrats, 24% are registered Republicans, and 48% are registered unaffiliated.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 49:43-49:52
“46 of the folks down at the state Capitol that want more big government and more higher taxes and don't really care about the integrity of…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 50:45-50:53
“The state House Republicans, all 19 of us, we walked out to at the end of this year.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 54:03-54:08
“In Colorado, unlike other states, a quorum is a simple majority.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 54:17-54:22
“46% of Coloradans who we also represent, that we also speak for do not have a voice in the state House because they keep using Rule 14 and…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 54:45-54:54
“Oregon has a higher quorum requirement than we do in Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 55:05-55:10
“It unfortunately doesn't slow the works much here in Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 56:37-56:41
“We have to have leaders. We have to have folks that all come together that understand the times.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:01:30-1:01:37
“It is not loving to have your neighbor be overtaxed, overregulated, having all of their money being siphoned off to the government.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:02:09-1:02:26
“Public safety [is] fall[ing] apart.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:02:18-1:02:18
“They can't get an education for their kids.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:02:23-1:02:26