flat tax
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Group submits signatures for proposed Colorado graduated income tax
The measure, which eliminates Colorado’s flat tax, is expected to raise $2 billion in new revenue The proposal to amend the Colorado constitution to change the state’s flat rate into a graduated income tax came in under the wire Monday, the deadline for groups to turn in petition signatures for November’s ballot, setting up a…
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Signatures submitted to cap Colorado’s income tax rate
The group behind a ballot measure aiming to cap the state’s income tax at the current rate has submitted signatures from voters to election officials for review, part of the tug and pull in Colorado between opposing political forces fighting over state revenue. That fight is taking shape as the contending sides push their diametrically…
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Colorado Title Board rejects challenges to graduated income tax ballot measure
The state body that determines whether a ballot measure contains a single subject has rejected challenges to eight versions of the push to change Colorado’s flat rate to a graduated income tax, thereby increasing the taxes on higher income earners. Opponents argued that the proposals wouldn’t just hike the taxes on higher-income individuals — they…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado congressman calls for abolishment of IRS
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: U.S. Rep. Dan Schaefer, a Republican representing Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, joined several congressional colleagues for “tea” in Boston Harbor aboard the Beaver II, a full-sized replica of the 18th century ship of the same name. Dipping a copy of the United States tax code into a large basin, Schaefer…
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SLOAN | Amendment 73’s tax hike on ‘someone else’ — is a tax hike on you
Andy Kessler wrote a column in the Wall Street Journalon Monday in which he remarked on how bad ideas seem to have a lamentable habit of being resurrected even when thought left for dead on the ash heap of history. He could have very well been writing about Colorado’s proposed Amendment 73. Amendment 73 is…
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Paul: Government can’t help; it can only hurt
Three recent stories regarding three government agencies – the IRS, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – show why we should oppose big government for practical, as well as philosophical, reasons. In recent months, many Americans have missed their flights because of longer-than-usual TSA security lines. In typical D.C.…