Polis Admin Unveils Latest Electric Vehicle Policy, Avoids California-Style Gas Vehicle Ban
The Polis administration appears to favor the carrot over the stick to encourage electric vehicle adoption. The administration on Thursday released its updated roadmap for encouraging the electrification of the state’s transportation sector, which includes a goal of “nearly 100% of light-duty vehicles being electric by 2050, 100% of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles being zero emissions, […]
Don’t Get Used to the Recent Drop in Gas Prices
Despite Governor Polis’s last minute hand-wringing, the EPA has announced that expensive new gasoline requirements will absolutely be coming to the Denver Metro area. According to the Colorado Sun: The Environmental Protection Agency can’t let Colorado off the hook for imposing more expensive reformulated gas to fight ozone pollution beginning in 2024, the agency said in […]
The Tax and Regulate Reality Behind Governor Polis’s Libertarian Image
To what extent is Jared Polis a pro-liberty or libertarian governor? Here we can take “libertarian” broadly to mean support for free markets and personal liberties. There is no precise measure of the “libertarianness” of Polis’s various policies and actions that might yield some overall objective score. Some of his policies and actions are pro-liberty, […]
Tax Expenditure Modifications, 2019-2022: Governor Polis’s Record on Special Interest Tax Benefits
Governor Polis has garnered national recognition for his politically libertarian and right-leaning ideas as a Democrat, especially on the issues of limited government and tax policy. Breaking from the Democrat party line, during the 9News gubernatorial candidates debate in October 2018, he told Coloradans he wanted to eliminate special interest tax benefits and use the […]
LISTEN: Governor Polis’ 2022 Budget with Ben Murrey
Governor Jared Polis released his FY2022-23 budget proposal in November 2021. On December 2, Independence Institute’s Fiscal Policy Director Ben Murrey went on KLZ 560 AM in Denver to speak with host Kim Monson and discuss the governor’s budget, the massive expansion in state revenues over the past decade, and the economic outlook for the […]
A Path to Zero Income Tax for Colorado
When an interviewer recently asked Colorado’s Democratic governor Jared Polis what the state’s income-tax rate should be, he answered without hesitation: “It should be zero.” For many Coloradans, this came as no surprise: The effort to chisel away at the income tax has already gained steam in the state. Last year, voters reduced the tax […]
Polis appointee: “Caldara is a piece of sh*t!”
Hey, I’m very used to being called many variations of this, because often enough it’s true. But I’m surprised to have it come from a member of the tolerance-celebrating, diversity-happy Polis administration. Quick bit of background here. I write a weekly Sunday column which appears in the Denver and Colorado Springs Gazettes and Colorado Politics. […]
Proposition 116 Facts
DID YOU KNOW PROPOSITION 116… IS A SIMPLE, FAIR TAX CUT FOR ALL INCOME TAX PAYERS This is an income tax cut of .08% for ALL income tax payers, from 4.63% to 4.55%. Everyone who pays income taxes will receive the exact same tax cut in proportion with what they pay. IS SUPPORTED BY GOVERNOR […]
Conclusion: Reflection and New Hope for 2020
Conclusion of our series on the Colorado Green New Deal As the summer ends, it’s time to wrap up our series on the Colorado Green New Deal (CGND). Democrats in the house, senate, and governor’s office have been dedicated to moving the state toward what the Polis Administration describes as a “clean energy future.” This […]
