Author: Jesse Mallory
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Coloradans are in no mood to pay more | OPINION
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Jesse Mallory Coloradans are getting hit with what one reporter described as a “tsunami of higher taxes, new fees and paycheck cuts” thanks to new surcharges and fees taking effect in 2023. Sure, several politicians ran for office on a platform of saving people money during the 2022 election by temporarily reducing or pausing fee…
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Reaffirm TABOR, reject budgetary tricks
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Jesse Mallory Angel MerlosANDERSON GONZALEZ PHOTOGRAPHER Colorado taxpayers recently received great news: our economy has rebounded to the point that state tax revenues are significantly higher than projected. That not only ensures ample funding for budget priorities, it also means that under the state constitution, citizens are due a tax rebate. Gov. Jared Polis and…
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COUNTERPOINT | Don’t go sneaking in a gas tax hike!
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Jesse Mallory Colorado voters in November emphatically endorsed tougher rules to keep our state’s politicians from violating the spirit of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. Also read: POINT | Modernizing our transportation system Now, only a little over two months later, those politicians are cooking up a new plan to create an end run around…
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OPINION | Don’t trust politicians’ latest attempt to tinker with TABOR
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Jesse Mallory As Coloradans consider Proposition CC and the fate of our Taxpayer Bill of Rights this November, we should bear in mind the lessons of Novembers past. In 2005, voters were promised that if the state were allowed to keep the excess revenue that should have been refunded to taxpayers under TABOR, the money…
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THE PODIUM | State subsidy for electric cars is a handout to the privileged few
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Jesse Mallory At the end of last month, much of the country was gripped by an arctic blast known as a polar vortex. Yet amid the frigid temperatures were heartwarming stories of people helping people. In Chicago, one woman paid for hotel rooms for 70 homeless people – an act of generosity that highlighted the plight of homeless and…
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Some policy ideas our lawmakers should be able to agree on
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Jesse Mallory(Courtesy photo) Now that the 2019 Colorado General Assembly has officially started, here’s some advice to every single lawmaker in Denver: Forget party labels and put the interests of Coloradans first. What this means in practice is promoting policies that allow us to keep more of our hard-earned money, make health care more accessible…
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A lost opportunity to employ more Coloradans
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At the start of this year’s legislative session, Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran told her colleagues that “we love Colorado and what it stands for: opportunity for all who show responsibility through hard work.” But Duran’s words ring hollow in the wake of her decision to kill not one, but two bills that would have made it easier for many Coloradans…
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Colorado’s road to freedom starts with reducing barriers to work, resisting urge to raise taxes
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In 2018 state lawmakers have an opportunity to make Colorado an even better place to live, and they can do it without having to raise our taxes. Legislators will be lobbied to support pet projects that favor the select few and get behind tax increases to pay for it all, but a better approach would…
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The dinosaurs of the Douglas County School Board
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Innovation in education is happening across the United States, but unfortunately there are those who want to stand in the way of progress and cling to the past here in Colorado. And no one represents the past these days better than the Douglas County School Board, which recently voted to end a scholarship program that would have…
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Colorado’s public pension system is a disaster in the making
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Colorado’s public pension system, the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) is in serious trouble, and if it continues on this same track, just about everyone in the state will feel the pain. Of course, it’s not too late. Colorado could get this right. But only if it learns from the past and embraces a new way of giving public employees more control…
