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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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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Hickenlooper’s climate order based on magical thinking0
- FISCAL - Opinion Editorials
- August 2, 2017
Governor Hickenlooper has ordered a two percent decline in electricity sales and wishes to give state government control of energy pricing and production.
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Corporate favoritism gone wild in Westminster0
- Local Colorado Project
- July 31, 2017
This is where capitalism gets twisted into cronyism, with planners and politicians picking economic winners and losers by granting special privileges in the form of public subsidy.
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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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