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Rob’s New Book on the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR)0
- April 14, 2017
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House Bill 1187: Why should state government get to spend more just because people work more?0
- March 7, 2017
Increasing state spending as population grows assumes that larger populations require more government services. This may not always be the case, but it at least refrains from taxing people simply because they work harder.
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Why date rapists hate TABOR 0
- February 28, 2017
by Jon Caldara The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights does NOT limit tax and spending. In fact, TABOR allows Colorado governments, all 3,700 of them, to rake in and keep unlimited amounts of money and heap unlimited amounts of debt upon your children. It requires you merely be asked first. That’s it. Ask first. You won’t
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Judge Gorsuch and the Independence Institute 0
- 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
- 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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TABOR: All About the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights 0
- 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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