Two Democrats in the legislature are planning as soon as this week to introduce a bill eliminating future Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights Refunds. Republicans and conservative groups are already opposed.
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Opinion: The budget surplus won’t last forever. Now’s not the time to cut the income-tax rate
With a recession on the horizon, flush times at the Capitol are nearing an end. The needs of families, roads and schools will remain.
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Opinion: Jeffco Schools are headed for a fiscal cliff
Enrollment is declining; spending is increasing. Closing schools won’t save enough money to prevent a budget emergency
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Zornio: Cut the politics — TABOR isn’t working for Colorado, even if we get a big, fat refund
The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights has long provoked political tension, and this election year is proving no different, thanks to a larger-than-usual mandatory refund. But once again, politics is getting in the way of healthy policy discussion. So let’s first put in context the politics, and then consider what actually matters. The political games began […]
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Jim Morrissey: Coloradans’ tax refund checks double as economic reality checks
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
Posted inPolitics and Government
Jared Polis’ name isn’t on TABOR refund checks heading to Coloradans. But it will be on a letter accompanying them.
A letter from Gov. Jared Polis will accompany Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refund checks that are starting to be sent to Coloradans this week in the latest Democratic move around the money that’s sure to stoke more Republican allegations of political opportunism heading into the November election. In the letter, Polis writes “it is a […]
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Nicolais: Strong local reporters become more critical in a post-truth political world
With just over three months until the 2022 general election, fabrications, half-truths, omissions and utter lies will dominate political discussion from now until November. It is the same song, just at a different tempo. We live in a post-truth political world. Misleading characterizations have always been a part of the political world. More than two […]
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Rising inflation is on a collision course with Colorado’s TABOR cap. And the state budget is in the middle.
The lawmakers who write Colorado’s budget are preparing to pare back some capital projects in the coming months as they contend with inflation straining a budget capped by the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. The TABOR cap, a key component of Colorado’s 1992 constitutional amendment limiting government growth and spending, is calculated by adding together […]
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Colorado’s high-stakes property tax battle ends dramatically as opposing sides agree to embrace $700M reduction
Colorado’s property tax arms race ended Friday morning after conservative and liberal groups moved to withdraw the ballot measures they were pursuing for the November ballot that would have dramatically altered the tax code. Democratic leaders in the legislature, meanwhile, vowed not to pursue an opposing ballot initiative that would have prevented property tax changes […]
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Property tax arms race involving Colorado power players grips Capitol as fragile deal starts to deteriorate
A property tax arms race involving some of the state’s most powerful people is unfolding behind the scenes at the Colorado Capitol in the final days of the 2022 lawmaking term, jeopardizing a fragile deal unveiled this week. The deal, backed by the governor and negotiated over several weeks, would reduce projected property tax increases […]