Bond questions are a stewardship call: real needs versus real debt. The money funds bricks-and-mortar improvements at colleges and schools, and the unanimous legislative votes signal broad agreement the projects are warranted. The honest cost is that general-obligation bonds are repaid with interest through property taxes, so a yes is a yes to long-term borrowing. The discipline a careful citizen applies is to ask whether each project is a genuine capital need or a wish-list item, and whether the state's existing debt load leaves room. The dollar figures here are public; weigh them against your tolerance for property-tax-backed debt.
"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?"
— Luke 14:28 (KJV)