Progressive income tax means a more volatile Colorado budget
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the books Antifragile and The Black Swan, defines fragility as: “what does not like volatility, and that what does not like volatility does not like randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors, stressors, etc.” The Democrat plan to replace Colorado’s flat income tax with a progressive tax is a pitch-perfect example of this. […]
Colorado voters sold false bill of goods with Props LL and MM
According to recent Joint Budget Committee staff analysis, Colorado’s Healthy School Meals for All (HSMA) program was operating within budget during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 fiscal years, before Propositions LL and MM were passed by voters in November. This information raises significant concerns about what voters knowingly or unknowingly approved when they passed Propositions LL […]
Colorado losing luster as a migration destination state
Colorado’s State Demography Office recently held its 2025 State Demography Summit to present updated population data for the state, using the most current research methods. Colorado’s population/migratory trends could significantly impact the state’s economic trajectory. Let’s unpack some of the new data. Changes due to new methodology The US Census Bureau consistently updates its methodology […]
Colorado voters force the few to subsidize school lunch for all
Colorado voters on Tuesday passed Propositions LL and MM by wider margins than 2022’s Proposition FF, which first created the Healthy School Meals for All (HSMA) program, thus subsidizing “free” lunch for all school kids regardless of a family’s ability to pay. The grim decision by so many Coloradans to force the few to carry […]
Colorado falling further behind in state tax competitiveness
The non-partisan Tax Foundation just published its 2026 edition of the State Tax Competitiveness Index. Colorado — already in the bottom half of states for tax competitiveness — continues to slide in the rankings, and the current political trajectory will only exacerbate the situation. Colorado losing its edge In last year’s index, Colorado placed 32nd […]
Propositions LL & MM a warm up for much bigger tax hike
Colorado’s statewide Propositions LL and MM are ominous preludes to the so-called ‘progressive’ income tax proposition working its way towards next year’s ballot. But by rejecting LL and MM, voters can send a clear message to the legislature that Coloradans still believe in basic tax fairness and holding state government accountable. As I previously explained, […]
Progressive Colorado income tax push obscures fiscal reality
A newly proposed ballot measure depends on budget hysteria to try to change Colorado’s flat income tax into a progressive tax. The ballot measure’s supporters are purposefully obscuring the state’s fiscal reality and catastrophizing to go after the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), which progressives despise because it places modest limits on the growth of government. […]
Progressive press blames Colorado voters for state budget hole
Soon after I first explained that Colorado taxpayers keeping more of their own money under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is actually a good thing, more false claims about the OBBBA, as well as Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) materialized. As soon as I rectified those misconceptions, a Colorado Sun article presented […]
Dems desperate to deflect blame for self-inflicted budget wound
As expected, the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is sparking political battles in Colorado, with the two most common misconceptions of the bill’s impact on the Colorado budget being fueled by muddled rhetoric and flimsy logic. Claim 1: Blame the OBBBA Colorado’s progressive legislators are out in full force, denouncing the OBBBA […]
Colorado’s budget gap means more money in taxpayers’ pockets
Have Colorado lawmakers cried wolf about the state’s budget too many times? The state legislature, after recently reconciling a billion-dollar “budget shortfall” due mostly to a relentless overspending habit, is now back in the barber chair for yet another fiscal haircut. And while legislators are still overspending and overpromising, state revenue reductions from taxpayer-friendly policy […]
Colorado voters get another bite at ‘free’ school lunch apple
Colorado’s “free” school lunch program could finally be getting a well-deserved reality check, depending on what voters have to say about it come November. Governor Polis recently signed two bills concerning the state’s Healthy School Meals for All program (HSMA): House Bill 25-1274, which essentially asks voters to both de-TABOR existing revenue as well as […]
House Bill 1335: Colorado’s sweetheart tax credits breaking the bank
Governor Polis recently signed into law a Joint Budget Committee (JBC) sponsored bill that changes the availability of two of the state’s most significant tax credits. House Bill 25-1335 was prompted by a pair of cautious forecasts conducted by the Legislative Council Staff (LCS) and the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSPB) in […]
