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  • Cuomo’s Claim that capping SALT deductions is unconstitutional is wrong

    Cuomo’s Claim that capping SALT deductions is unconstitutional is wrong0

    • February 14, 2018

    Opponents of the new tax law are right to be concerned about federal overreaching, but they are barking up the wrong tree. They are inventing a fictional limit on federal authority while ignoring real ones.

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  • Should Colorado Spend $50 Million On Studying Disney- Style Mountain Monorail?0

    • October 20, 2001

    Enough studies! If this tax grab passes, it will add, at minimum, another three years until we even begin to fix the traffic problem on I-70. Despite the impression given, this proposal does not build a monorail, or anything else, in the mountain corridor. It is just another study replicating work being done by the Colorado and Federal Departments of Transportation. It will, however, cost every couple in Colorado about $40 out of their tax refunds.

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  • Back To Basics For Tax Reform In Colorado0

    • February 28, 2000

    It is difficult to explain the 60 odd tax bills before the Colorado Legislature this year. Every interest group in the state seems to be clamoring for tax refunds, tax cuts, or expenditures of surplus revenue to benefit their interest group. If the legislature responds to these special interests this year, as they did last year, we will end up with more loopholes and more complexity in our tax system. We seem to have forgotten the lessons learned from the tax reforms launched by the Reagan revolution, and it is time for Colorado legislators to return to these basic principles of tax reform. I will discuss first the principles that should guide tax reform in Colorado, and then some of the proposed tax bills.

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  • Solving Colorado’s Educational Finance Problem0

    • March 1, 1998

    The issue of public school finance is central to the debate over tax reform in Colorado. Several bills have been introduced in the Colorado Legislature that would significantly change the way in which Colorado finances our public schools. These bills call for replacing the property tax with a state income or sales tax as the major source of funding for the public schools.

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  • Give the Taxpayer a Lobbying Break – a Little TLC!0

    • April 25, 1995

    IP-8-1995 (April 1995) Author: Fred Holden PDF of full Issue Paper Scribd version of full Issue Paper Executive Summary: Although American political heritage teaches the importance of representative government, in practice the best representation comes to those with the best lobbyists. Over half (25%) of all lobbyists registered in Colorado represent government or quasi-government entities.

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