Almost all administrators want more money.  Republican, Democrats and Independents.  

Philosophically, Democrats typically want more societal functions to be managed by the government.  This cost money.  It is interesting that TABOR provides a way of overriding spending limits and after 20 years of TABOR, the Democrats will not sponsor attempts to override the spending limits.  If they truly believe in expanded spending, why not try to override TABOR?  Or are they afraid to take responsibility for their beliefs?

Gasoline taxes are a great example of a structurally bad tax.  We need to find an actuarilly valid manner of supporting our roads.  There have been proposals to tax vehicles by a combination of weight and miles driven.  While this would be actuarilly sound for local drivers, it would also give the government one more piece of private information about how we live that they could misuse. It would also fail to tax out-of-state drivers.