Colorado lawmaker’s nonprofit bankrolling progressive tax push
DENVER – State Rep. Lorena Garcia, a Westminster Democrat, has been working overtime to ensure a progressive state income tax initiative makes it in front of Colorado voters this November, including...
View ArticleOver $620K spent on signatures for Initiative 195 tax hike effort
DENVER – What has been billed as a “grassroots” movement to implement a progressive income tax in Colorado has proven one thing: the effort behind the signatures turned in to put Initiative 195 on the...
View ArticleThe bracket creep case against Colorado’s Initiative 195 tax hike
Initiative 195, the proposed ‘progressive’ income tax ballot measure, promises long-term pain for Colorado taxpayers due to what economists call “bracket creep.” But we do not need to speculate about...
View ArticleVoters to decide capping Colorado’s state income tax rate
DENVER–Voters will decide on a measure to cap Colorado’s income tax rate at the current 4.4%, after backers gathered enough valid signatures to qualify for the November statewide ballot. The measure...
View ArticleFront Range voters to decide hefty passenger rail tax hike
PUEBLO – Coloradans living within the boundaries of Front Range rail taxing district are one election away from seeing their sales taxes significantly increased to raise nearly $300 million per year to...
View ArticleMontana poised to benefit from Colorado’s flat tax lead
While Montana is poised to learn from the flat tax success stories of Colorado and other Western states, the push for a progressive income tax in Colorado threatens the very policies that made the...
View ArticleAmendment 87: A long-term tax increase for all Coloradans
Amendment 87 (formerly Initiative 195), the Colorado ballot measure aimed at trading the state’s flat 4.4% income tax rate for six new marginal tax brackets, is fatally flawed. As previously...
View ArticleYampa Valley transit authority sends sales tax to November ballot
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The Yampa Valley Regional Transportation Authority (YVRTA) Board of Directors on Wednesday voted 5-1 to send a 0.5% sales tax hike to the November ballot, asking voters across the...
View ArticleProgressive income tax cooks Colorado’s golden goose
There once was a countryman who possessed the most wonderful goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg. But the countryman...
View ArticleThe perpetual tax hike hidden in Colorado’s Amendment 87
“Youth is wasted on all the wrong people.” That’s one of my favorite lines from “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The older I get, the less it sounds like a joke. Every generation inherits victories it did not...
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