Fiscal Policy Center

Sustainable Colorado Budget to Help Eliminate State Income Taxes 0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Issue Papers
- December 8, 2023
In 1992, Colorado voters adopted the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) to limit the growth in state and local spending. Over the past three decades, however, politicians from both parties and a complicit judicial branch have exempted more and more state spending from the TABOR limit. When voters adopted TABOR, 67% of state spending was
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Bishop: CO Legislature using TABOR refunds to pay for special interest tax benefits 0
- FISCAL - Opinion Editorials
- April 25, 2023
With the public distracted by gun control, abortion, and other hot-button issues, the Democrat-controlled Colorado legislature is quietly advancing nearly two dozen bills to redistribute your taxpayer refund to special interests. The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) in Colorado’s Constitution requires the state to refund excess tax revenue back to taxpayers. The state cannot spend this surplus
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The Tax and Regulate Reality Behind Governor Polis’s Libertarian Image 0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Issue Papers, FISCAL - Publications
- September 26, 2022
To what extent is Jared Polis a pro-liberty or libertarian governor? Here we can take “libertarian” broadly to mean support for free markets and personal liberties. There is no precise measure of the “libertarianness” of Polis’s various policies and actions that might yield some overall objective score. Some of his policies and actions are pro-liberty,
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LISTEN: Governor Polis’ 2022 Budget with Ben Murrey 0
- FISCAL - Featured
- February 10, 2022
Governor Jared Polis released his FY2022-23 budget proposal in November 2021. On December 2, Independence Institute’s Fiscal Policy Director Ben Murrey went on KLZ 560 AM in Denver to speak with host Kim Monson and discuss the governor’s budget, the massive expansion in state revenues over the past decade, and the economic outlook for the
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