taxpayers bill of rights
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The secret to Colorado’s economic success? The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights
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The latest Census Bureau data released earlier this year shows that Colorado’s population has grown by nearly two-thirds since 1992, one of the fastest increases in the country. If you are part of the more than 2 million new residents who have arrived over this time, there are a few things you should know: Avoid I-70 on…
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HUDSON | Sidetracked by sidebar issues, TABOR lawsuit plods onward
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Last week the desultory path of the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s TABOR amendment found its way into Courtroom 2 at the old federal building in downtown Denver. Just one day short of seven years since their case was originally filed, arguments and a resolution regarding the merits of plaintiffs’ claims appeared no closer…
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Q&A with Jesse Mallory | ‘Economic liberty will be realized on the community level’
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Worried about the future of freedom? Rest assured; assorted advocacy groups on America’s political right are doing your bidding – though it’s often enough on the far-off battlefront of our nation’s capital. Americans for Prosperity is fighting the fight in the trenches alongside you – in your state, in your community, one issue after another. Hence,…
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Denver League of Women Voters: Let’s talk TABOR
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They’re calling the event “Another look at TABOR” – as in 1992’s voter-enacted Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights – because of course it won’t be the first time skeptics of the epic tax-limiting provision in the Colorado Constitution have eyed it in hopes of changing it. And while the March 19 forum, announced in a news…
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Colorado’s road to freedom starts with reducing barriers to work, resisting urge to raise taxes
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In 2018 state lawmakers have an opportunity to make Colorado an even better place to live, and they can do it without having to raise our taxes. Legislators will be lobbied to support pet projects that favor the select few and get behind tax increases to pay for it all, but a better approach would…
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Duck! The legislature’s in session! …But there’s no need to tell that to CUT
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Wikipedia reminds us it was the now-forgotten 19th century New York politician Gideon J. Tucker who observed, “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.” It’s a sentiment that nowadays draws more applause on the right than the left. And among those whose daily toils include wooing and cajoling lawmakers to…
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WATCH LIVE: Gov. John Hickenlooper gives his last Colorado State of the State address
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(Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared as a blog on our website last Friday.) When gunfire erupted outside the state Capitol last week, before Gov. John Hickenlooper was scheduled to meet with reporters, he was too busy to pay much attention. “It had nothing to do with me,” he said of the gunfire,…
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Citizens Budget Committee serves as a check and balance on local government
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The Arapahoe County government spends nearly $400 million per year serving over 600,000 residents. If your home or business is within the county, you pay the costs of that government. Whether a homeowner or renter, increased property taxes impact everyone throughout the county. If property taxes go up, so will rents. Every citizen is affected. …
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It’s all about Douglas Bruce — this time, in a way that actually enlightens
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It’s not that much of a stretch to say the history of Colorado fiscal policy over the past quarter-century is synonymous with the biography of Douglas Bruce. That’s by and large because of the one groundbreaking policy Bruce authored and relentlessly championed into law in 1992, the voter-approved Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in the state…
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Colorado tilts left in local elections in the year of Trump
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Well past dark on Tuesday, Dan Thomas dropped off his ballot before the polls closed at the Denver Elections Office just across Civic Center park from his office. “It was on my desk,” he said of his ballot. “I saw it walking out, and I don’t want a black mark that says I’m a bad…
