The residents of Colorado have been roiled by public arguments over the level of services provided by governments and the costs and means to provide them. Our citizens need clear analysis of the issue; ones that do not come from people that enjoy the increased of an ever larger government or from special interests, seeking greater largess from the taxpayer. The Fiscal Policy Center is tackling this problem. The purpose of the Fiscal Policy Center is to communicate the balance between taxation and liberty.health care issues.
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Colorado voters pushing back on urban renewal overreach0
- FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, Local Colorado Project, Mike Krause
- July 20, 2017
Until the legislature acts, Coloradans will need to continue taking back control over their local governments, and their hard-earned tax dollars, one urban renewal authority at a time.
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An opportunity for lawmakers to fix Colorado’s broken public pension system0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, The Hill
- June 22, 2017
Last fall, members of the Colorado Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) got some bad news: the amortization periods for the public pension system’s two largest funds had ballooned dangerously. Under current assumptions, the state fund would not be fully funded for 55 years, and the even larger school fund would not be fully funded for 75 years.
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PERA deserves an earful on its listening tour0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials
- May 17, 2017
Members and non-members alike should be prepared to ask PERA’s board some tough questions about their credibility.
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Mismanaged pension funds are imperiling state budgets0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, The Hill
- April 4, 2017
As the looming public pension storm gathers strength, debate is expanding past technical matters and into the governance structures of taxpayer-funded pension plans. The problems that beset our public pensions are not the result of random chance, evil spirits, or swamp gas. They are the result of conscious decisions made by human beings.
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A Decade of Colorado Road and Transportation Spending in Pictures0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Issue Backgrounders, Linda Gorman, Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Issue Backgrounders
- March 28, 2017
The roughly $300 million a year that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) says it needs to fill the state’s road spending deficit is less than 2 pennies out of each dollar of total state spending.
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House Bill 1187: Why should state government get to spend more just because people work more?0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, Linda Gorman
- March 7, 2017
Increasing state spending as population grows assumes that larger populations require more government services. This may not always be the case, but it at least refrains from taxing people simply because they work harder.
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