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Amendment B Repeals Property Owners’ Constitutional Tax Protections 0
- October 5, 2020
Colorado has 4,518 active local governments that collect property taxes. Every single one of them wants more money. So do the interest groups that get money from those governments. Passing Amendment B will help them get it.
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What You Need to Know About Amendment 73 and Public Education Funding 0
- September 18, 2018
IB-C-2018 (Sept. 2018) Author: Linda Gorman DOWNLOAD REPORT IN PDF Executive Summary: In November 2018, voters will decide on Amendment 73, a state constitutional amendment which would increase income, property and corporate taxes in Colorado to fund public education. If Amendment 73 passes, Colorado will no longer have equal state income tax rates for all.
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A Decade of Colorado Road and Transportation Spending in Pictures 0
- 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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Who Pays Colorado Taxes?0
- September 16, 2015
Linda Gorman writes about the 38 percent increase in Colorado state spending.
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2015 Thumbnail Guide to Colorado’s Spending Problem 0
- July 29, 2015
IB-D-2015 (July 2015) Author: Linda Gorman PDF of full Issue Backgrounder Introduction: Colorado state government has a spending problem. Between FY 1999-00 and FY 2013-14, its inflation-adjusted expenditures rose by 38 percent.1 Its inflation-adjusted revenues rose by just 34 percent. Although Colorado’s working age population grew over the period, its private sector employment stagnated.
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Amendment 66: More Spending Doesn’t Buy Higher Student Achievement 0
- October 25, 2013
Parents spend their money to benefit their children. School bureaucrats spend other people’s money to benefit the schools and those who run them. Amendment 66 raises taxes to take money from working Coloradans. It gives the broken public school bureaucracy more to spend and leaves parents with less. Taking money from parents harms children.
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