let’s go colorado
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Poll: Voters favor no-new-tax transportation fix over tax-hike plan
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Colorado voters aren’t in the mood to raise the state sales tax to pay for broad swatch of transportation solutions, a new poll indicates. Just 35 percent of likely voters said they would support Proposition 110, billed by supporters as “Let’s Go, Colorado,” to hike the sales tax by 0.62 cents for state, local and…
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COVER STORY | Heavy traffic across Colorado: Transportation dollars at stake in election
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Colorado’s means of getting around are in great need of attention, partisans on every side agree. But the various solutions and competing ways of paying for transportation improvements offered by candidates and ballot measures are a different political matter entirely. The interstates across Colorado have gotten by on a federal gas tax that hasn’t been…
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‘Let’s Go, Colorado’ transportation measure makes fall ballot
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Voters in November will decide among two visions of how to fix Colorado’s neglected transportation problems. Backers of Initiative 153 gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the fall ballot, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams said Thursday. The measure – nicknamed “Let’s Go, Colorado” – would increase the state’s sales-and-use tax rate by…
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IN RESPONSE | We don’t need a tax hike to fix Colorado’s highways
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(Re: “Only one ballot issue can tackle Colorado’s transportation challenges,” Aug. 10.) Let’s fix our roads without a massive 21 percent increase of our state sales tax. The collaborative cronyists’ proposal, “Let’s Go Colorado” – a huge tax increase, allegedly for transportation – hurts everyday, hardworking Coloradans who are chasing their American dream. If the politicians, bureaucrats,…
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Transportation measures’ backers park petitions at secretary of state’s office
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Supporters of two transportation measures proposed for Colorado’s November ballot jockeyed for first position at the Secretary of State’s Office when it opened at 7 a.m. Monday to turn in petitions. One measure, Initiative 153, would raise the state sales tax by about 6 cents on a $10 purchase, effective Jan. 1, to finance bonds for…
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Transportation tax advocates plan Monday rally over petitions
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The coalition Let’s Go Colorado is expected to announce Monday morning that it has turned in enough petitions to get a 0.62 statewide sales tax on the November ballot to pay for transportation. The Secretary of State’s Office will need to approve at least 98,492 valid signatures from registered voters to certify the measure. The…
