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How Colorado officials manipulate ballot language to get what they want: The case of JeffCo Issue 1A 0
- October 7, 2019
Ballot language abuse has become a Colorado scandal.
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Colorado Supreme Court rules against TABOR—Again!0
- October 3, 2019
If you read enough Colorado Supreme Court TABOR opinions, you notice . . . motifs: (1) taxpayers always lose, (2) the court’s opinions are often evasive . . . , and (3) after creating an anti-TABOR precedent, the justices then stretch it to create even more anti-TABOR precedents.
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Colorado Supreme Court issues 2nd anti-TABOR decision in less than a month—showing why we need reform!0
- May 24, 2018
The Colorado Supreme Court has continued its demolition campaign against the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) with a new decision further restricting the people’s right to vote on tax increases. This latest decision comes less than a month after the court held the people have no right to vote on a law that re-adjusted sales
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Colorado’s Supreme Court has once again weakened taxpayers’ rights 0
- May 1, 2018
Each anti-TABOR court decision has become precedent for further anti-TABOR decisions.
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Judge Gorsuch and the Independence Institute 0
- January 31, 2017
The Independence Institute has specific reason to celebrate the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. In 2011, a group of anti-TABOR plaintiffs sued in Denver federal court, arguing that TABOR violated the U.S. Constitution because it was inconsistent with the Constitution’s guarantee that every state have a “republican form of government.” (Kerr v.
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New Video on TABOR—the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights 0
- January 31, 2017
Fred Holden (below) and Rob Natelson, both Senior Fellows at the Independence Institute, talk about the famous Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in this interview.
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