For too many Republican lawmakers, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights is a sacred cow. Few are willing to support any tinkering of the law limiting government growth on fears that doing so leaves them vulnerable to fiscally conservative challengers.

That would seem especially true in a GOP stronghold like Mesa County, but state Rep. Dan Thurlow has proven time and again he’s no lockstep follower. After making a few waves as a party maverick in his first term, the Grand Junction Republican kicking off his second term with a proposal to change how the TABOR revenue cap is calculated.

Since the law was passed in 1992, the amount of money the state can collect is limited by a formula based on population growth and the rate of inflation (the consumer price index) in the Denver-Boulder-Greeley corridor.

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