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January 23, 2024Click to read full paper Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, champions increasing state revenue by eliminating provisions of the tax code that benefit special interests—what state budgeters call “tax expenditures.” Rather than use the new money to grow government or redistribute surplus...
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December 8, 2023In 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...
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May 2, 2023Last year, Independence Institute’s fiscal policy center published a 67-page report detailing every change made to state tax expenditures over Gov. Polis’s first term in office. This year, the legislature has proposed around two dozen new bills to further expand...
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April 25, 2023With 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...