linda gorman
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FEEDBACK | Polis’ plans for our tax dollars
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Federal tax cuts are a win-win for Colorado Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is attempting to pull the rug out from under hardworking Coloradans by repealing the recent federal tax reform. His “Students Over Special Interests Act” supposedly would use the money from the tax cut to cancel federal student loan debt. Yet,…
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Gorman: Rural Colorado bill seriously lacking in transparency, accountability to taxpayers
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Senate Bill 17-267 was recently approved by the Senate Finance Committee on a 4-1 vote. That’s potentially bad news for taxpayers, and sick people. The bill would make Colorado’s state budget less transparent, reduce legislative and taxpayer control over state spending, create two new slush funds outside of legislative control, increase state indebtedness, and use…
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Gorman: Amendment 72 is constitutionally guaranteed revenue for state bureaucracies
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Amendment 72 supporters claim that raising tobacco taxes will reduce smoking. That’s a smokescreen. What the amendment really does is create a constitutionally mandated stream of revenue for two state health bureaucracies that seek to shake off the shackles of legislative budgetary oversight. Under Amendment 72, the state tax on a pack of cigarettes will…
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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…
