Colorado media paints incomplete picture on Amendment 87 impact
A recent Colorado Sun article by Brian Eason makes incomplete claims about the Amendment 87 progressive income tax ballot question that could obscure the measure’s true impact on tax filers. Voters...
View ArticleComplaint accuses ‘CoCo’ rail district of tax-funded advocacy
STERLING – An eastern Colorado resident who was courted by the Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPR) to be one of its “CoCo Conductors,” has filed a campaign finance complaint with the secretary...
View ArticleGuest editorial: Reject blank sales tax check for Yampa Valley RTA
I spent six years as Routt County Treasurer. Every budget I signed had to answer one question first: what are we buying, and what does it cost? The Yampa Valley Regional Transportation Authority (RTA)...
View ArticleJefferson County voters face tax hike barrage on November ballot
GOLDEN — Voters across Jefferson County will find a stack of tax increase requests on their November ballots. The multiple tax questions cover fire protection, public schools and city streets....
View ArticleCoCo is cuckoo: 10 reasons to reject the Front Range rail tax
The Front Range Passenger Rail District wants Coloradans to spend $4.7 billion, plus around $100 million per year in operating costs, to run a few passenger trains a day between Fort Collins and...
View ArticleMontana’s progressive income tax disaster a warning to Colorado
Adopting a progressive income tax—as proposed this year by Colorado Amendment 87—is a pretty quick way to destroy a state. You can see this in Montana’s sad experience. More on that below. A...
View ArticleColorado media, state government tilt scale for Amendment 87
While Amendment 87’s proponents claim to fight for “tax fairness,” progressive media double standards and government favoritism give the measure an unfair advantage on the November ballot. Amendment...
View ArticleBoulder voters to see so-called ‘vacant’ homes tax on ballot
BOULDER–Voters in the City of Boulder will decide this November on a measure to adopt an estimated $6 million tax increase on residential properties deemed mostly unoccupied. The measure, titled Ballot...
View ArticleAmendment 87: Progressive taxes and the Bo Nix problem
Coloradans love their Broncos and want to attract the best players to Denver. Under Amendment 87, Colorado’s progressive income tax ballot measure, it would be more difficult to attract and retain...
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Guest editorial: The case against Colorado’s Proposition 137
Proposition 137, the deceptively-named “Direct Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue for Conservation,” would permanently alter state sales tax refunds under Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), as...
View ArticleAmendment 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...
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