Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns

Opinion: The state has collected more money than it legally can spend. Let’s invest some of it in teachers

If not now, when?  If not us, who?  Those are the questions that compelled us to action. As public-school graduates, parents and advocates, the two of us agreed earlier this year to be the proponents for a proposed citizens ballot initiative that would set aside certain revenues already collected by the state to be used […]

Posted inNews, Politics and Government

Here’s the income-tax cut and refund payment Coloradans will get because the TABOR cap was exceeded

Colorado taxpayers will get a break on their income taxes and a refund payment because the state’s cap on government growth and spending under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights was exceeded last fiscal year. The income tax rate will drop to 4.5% in 2021, down from 4.55%, and individual taxpayers will get an additional sales […]