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’s proposed pension reform is a missed opportunity0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, The Hill
- April 24, 2018
In November of 2016, Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association Board (PERA) realized it had a problem. Not only did the state’s public pension system have a current unfunded liability of $50 billion, but overly-optimistic expected returns and overly-pessimistic mortality tables would leave the plan at less than 20 percent funded in a couple of decades
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The Republican grand betrayal that just keeps getting worse0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, Jon Caldara, TABOR
- February 2, 2018
President Donald Trump and the Republican congress just gave us a large tax cut. But Colorado’s Republican-controlled state Senate had already taken it away. To comprehend how that’s possible, we need to understand the largest betrayal of Republican values in Colorado political history: the tax-hiking, debt-raising, TABOR-busting Senate Bill 267, sponsored by Republican state Sen.
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Hiking the minimum wage hurts low-wage workers0
- FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, Fiscal
- December 2, 2017
Every time the minimum wage changes, workers will feel it—for better or worse.
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PERA’s problems demand meaningful reform0
- FISCAL - Opinion Editorials
- October 23, 2017
Change is coming. The citizens of Colorado can choose to be its architects rather than its victims.
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Economic inequality is Public Enemy No. One0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, Jon Caldara
- September 15, 2017
by Jon Caldara A warning to my friends on the political right: Economic inequality is real. And the blowback from it could blindside us and cause a seismic leap to the left from which we may not return. Or let me try it another way. We’re all feeling it: a political tribalism rippling through the
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Economic Myths and Government Stimulus0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, Paul Prentice
- September 7, 2017
by Paul Prentice As the human tragedy and economic damage from Hurricane Harvey continue to mount, it won’t be long until several tired old economic myths are trotted out. First among these is what Frederic Bastiat called the “Broken Window Fallacy”. Accountants-disguised-as-economists will point to the so-called economic stimulus from the rebuilding efforts. But the
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