Amendment 87: How the Broncos play into Colorado’s tax fight
https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/729319aa-e531-4008-bc27-65e4e13e4b69/Caldara-BroncoIncomeTax-Mixdown.mp3 Do you want the Broncos to win the Super Bowl? Then you’d better hope Amendment 87 —...
View ArticleNew Jersey a warning against Colorado’s Amendment 87
Supporters of Amendment 87, Colorado’s progressive income tax ballot measure, believe that Colorado can copy other states’ bad tax policies and somehow avoid the consequences. It can’t. Other states...
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Pueblo’s sales tax bait-and-switch a cautionary tale for voters
Pueblo offers a cautionary tale for communities across Colorado being asked to extend, renew, or continue a dedicated tax. When voters approve a tax for one purpose, how much can the government...
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Proposition NN: A recipe for Colorado budget volatility
Is it true that more money means more problems? Proposition NN’s plan to alter Colorado’s fiscal constitutional guardrails will increase state budget volatility, even as revenue climbs. The TABOR...
View ArticleSchool districts tee up tax hikes for Colorado’s November ballot
DENVER–Colorado voters will find no shortage of school district tax requests on their November ballots, with boards ranging from the suburbs of Denver to the mountain towns beyond asking property...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleColorado 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 ArticleStrengthen taxpayer protections to keep Colorado affordable
Since 1992, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) has relied on a simple premise: Government should ask permission before it takes more of the public’s money and spend only what it needs. And for more...
View ArticleStudy: Tax refunds gone for ‘foreseeable future’ under Prop NN
DENVER–A measure referred to Colorado’s November ballot by the legislature would allow the state to keep and spend over $850 million in just the first two budget cycles after passage, revenue that...
View Article‘Bracket creep’ awaits Coloradans under progressive income tax
Proponents of a progressive state income tax claim that it will give most Coloradans a break on their taxes. Those familiar with history, inflation, and bracket creep see a much different long-term...
View ArticleColorado fee revenue skyrockets as voters hold line on taxes
DENVER – As Westminster Democrat Rep. Lorena Garcia was recently rallying volunteers for an 11th-hour signature gathering effort to put a graduated income tax (Initiative 195) on Colorado’s November...
View ArticleProgressives push price inequality for captive Colorado taxpayers
Some progressive Colorado politicians want to ban unequal pricing for what they call “captive consumers,” but when it comes to those same consumers paying taxes, they fully endorse price inequality....
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