I appreciated Michael Jorgensen’s opinion on creating incentives to have retired military members move to the Springs. Twenty-one years ago, we moved here, my husband having retired from the Marine Corps. It was the ideal location for a simple, quiet life, with resources and jobs, hunting, camping, fishing, conservative values and government, and with a strong faith community. Now, we’re wondering if it is time to go.

As the government hammers away at making us a clone of California, stripping us of freedoms, raising taxes through “fees,” threatening to make law-abiding gun owners into felons with the flick of a pen, importing drugs and crime with impunity, and making millions by inviting women into our abortion factories. It’s not the same state we chose two decades ago. Gov. Jared Polis wants to be Gavin Newsom in policy creation. Colorado is now a state of demise by design, which is heart-breaking for those who love this state, this country and served to protect them.

Ann Ransom Colorado Springs