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Colorado transit doesn’t need state funding 0
- Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- February 21, 2017
The misleading data are part of a report by a Boulder group known as the South West Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), which is urging the state legislature to spend more money on transit.
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Judge Gorsuch and the Independence Institute 0
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - Supreme Court, CONSTITUTION - TABOR
- January 31, 2017
The Independence Institute has specific reason to celebrate the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. In 2011, a group of anti-TABOR plaintiffs sued in Denver federal court, arguing that TABOR violated the U.S. Constitution because it was inconsistent with the Constitution’s guarantee that every state have a “republican form of government.” (Kerr v.
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New Video on TABOR—the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights 0
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - TABOR, TABOR
- January 31, 2017
Fred Holden (below) and Rob Natelson, both Senior Fellows at the Independence Institute, talk about the famous Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in this interview.
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Caldara’s Newsletter 01-25-17 “Love Trumps Hate”0
- Newsletter
- January 25, 2017
It’s sinful how much I’ve been enjoying the Left’s meltdown as Trump takes office. I can’t help hearing their campaign mantra, “Love Trumps Hate,” in my head when they throw their tantrums. While they’re breaking windows and throwing F-bombs, all I can hear is, “Love Trumps Hate.” When Madonna says she wants to blow up
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Caldara’s Newsletter 01-11-17 “Washington DC steals one of our own”0
- Newsletter
- January 11, 2017
Politics and politicians focus on the short term. We at Independence focus on the long term. After all, that’s how the Left won here in Colorado, by investing in infrastructure and watching it pay off. They invest a whole lot more, but we’re catching up. One of the most important jobs we do is building
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TABOR: All About the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights 0
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - TABOR, TABOR
- January 9, 2017
Rules limiting the legislature’s ability to tax, spend, and/or incur debt appear in the U.S. Constitution and in the constitutions of almost all states. But probably the most famous and most controversial is Colorado’s “Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights,” or TABOR. TABOR gives the people, voting in referenda, the final say on most state and local
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