Author: By Caroline Nutter
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Colorado has the cash, but TABOR has the access code | OPINION
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Caroline Nutter Colorado’s economy boomed during the past five years, rebounding quickly from the pandemic and causing state revenue to soar. But here’s the catch — thanks to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), those funds couldn’t be fully tapped into. Even with a jaw-dropping $1.4 billion revenue surplus last year, the Joint Budget Committee…
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Colorado can’t afford property-tax cuts | OPINION
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Caroline Nutter Colorado is quickly becoming one of the least affordable states in the country, particularly for housing. Property tax initiatives 50 and 108 claim to be the solution — but they could threaten access to resources property taxes help pay for like public K-12 school funding; public libraries; public healthcare, particularly in rural areas;…

