Bishop: CO Legislature using TABOR refunds to pay for special interest tax benefits
- April 25, 2023
Starting now, we can begin to move the investment risk back where it lies for the rest of us: to the employee.
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READ MOREImagine that you and your neighbor are friends and professional peers. You belong to the same professional organizations. You each have worked for your respective employers for a long time as retirement approaches. But one of you works for a private employer, the other for the State of Colorado. The state employee can retire with
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