Local Colorado Project

Tax rebates just another form of corporate favoritism 0
- February 22, 2018
This is where capitalism gets twisted into cronyism.
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Local Colorado governments are boarding the gravy train of corporate welfare 0
- January 24, 2018
Like most states, Colorado has a bureaucracy dedicated to doling out taxpayer-subsidized “incentives” to politically favored private businesses that don’t actually need a subsidy in the first place. The most recent example is a “consolidated” corporate welfare pitch to Amazon to bring its coveted HQ 2 to the Denver area. Several years ago, the New York
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Are Boulder’s housing policies accidentally racist?0
- October 27, 2017
by Jon Caldara If whites move into town, it’s called gentrification, and that’s racist. If whites move out of town, that’s called white flight, and well, that’s racist, too. But what if it African-Americans move out? Well, that would just be called Boulder. As my colleague Randal O’Toole pointed out this month, U.S. Census data shows
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Corporate favoritism gone wild in Westminster 0
- 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 overreach 0
- 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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Coloradans are pushing back on urban renewal abuse 0
- July 4, 2017
In June, a south suburban Denver fire district filed suit against the urban renewal authority (URA) in Parker, Colorado over the diversion of property taxes to subsidize redevelopment projects. Also in June, news broke that the URA in Arvada, Colorado in the north metro Denver area sold a 9-acre parcel of land to a developer for $30. The land is valued at around $9 million.
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