Author: Linda Gorman
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Gorman: ColoradoCare guarantees higher taxes but not health care
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If passed in November, Amendment 69 creates a bureaucracy called ColoradoCare. It will have a larger budget than the entire state of Colorado. Amendment 69 increases Colorado’s income tax rate by an additional 10 percent to fund ColoradoCare. The state income tax rate will be 14.63 percent, the nation’s highest. Amendment 69 exempts ColoradoCare from…