jeff wasden
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Congress should delay Obamacare’s crippling health-insurance tax
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With the Senate looking toward what’s next on health care reform and open enrollment looming, one issue picking up bipartisan support is delaying the health insurance tax for 2018. Delaying the tax would be an immediate action Congress could take to lower premiums. In fact, if a delay of this tax is passed soon, individuals,…
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We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enact meaningful tax reform
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President Trump visited Springfield, Missouri and laid out his plans for reforming our nation’s outdated, complex and uncompetitive tax system. The president’s plan is built around an America-first tax system that is focused on jobs, increasing wages and wealth in America, and restoring the American dream. The Business Roundtable conducted a survey of their CEOs…
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Colorado crop OK for now, but need for immigration reform ever more pressing
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Despite concerns earlier this year that the new Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies would lead to labor shortages across Colorado’s agricultural sector, growers and their advocates are breathing a sigh of relief as the harvest approaches, confident they’ll have the hands to pick and package what could be a bumper crop. But even though one…
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Colorado Business Roundtable names Joe Rice to its ’Inner Circle’
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Joe Rice, the director of government relations for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, is the latest addition to the Colorado Business Roundtable’s Inner Circle, a group including some of the state’s leading business authorities. Rice, a former Democratic state representative and former mayor of Glendale, is a colonel in the Army Reserve with five combat tours…
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Political veteran Dick Wadhams outlines ‘redprint’ for Republican victory in Colorado elections
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Dick Wadhams, who chaired the state Republican Party for two terms and had a hand in electing the statewide officials who set the tone for the Colorado GOP across three decades, has a message for the party: Republicans have never had it easy in Colorado. “This has always been a competitive state; this has never…
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Report: Congested, deteriorating roads cost Colorado drivers $6.8 billion a year
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Colorado’s poorly maintained roads and bridges don’t just make for an exasperating commute, they cost state motorists thousands of dollars per driver every year, and the cost is going up, according to a report released Wednesday. Statewide, 41 percent of major locally and state-maintained urban roads are in poor condition, and a full 6 percent…
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Coalition releases data to demonstrate impact of immigrants, need for policy reform
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A national organization of business and civic leaders released troves of data Tuesday to back up its contention that it’s long past time to fix the country’s immigration system. Research compiled by New American Economy details the foreign-born population, spending power, taxes paid, home ownership and other measures for every congressional district in the country…
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Wasden: We have an urgent need for real immigration reform
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The discourse around our immigrant community has been distasteful and downright embarrassing. Yes, we are nation of laws but we are also a nation of caring and compassionate individuals that have been raised to love thy neighbor and to care for others. While this year’s political stage has been part circus, part reality show, it…
