Seizure of Private Property By State Government0

• March 23, 1991

Will Senate Bill 102, due for House action the week of March 18, produce unintended adverse consequences for property rights in Colorado? This policy brief from the Independence Institute suggests that it could do so if not amended.

Helping The New Russia: A Primer For Donors0

• December 22, 1989

Whether or not events of the 1990s bear out the fashionable assumption that the Cold War is over, with the passing of the 1980s we are clearly entering a period when America’s relationship with the Soviet Union will be closer, more routine, and more diversified that ever before. This will mean not only greater engagement at the government level, but also a dizzying expansion of non-government contacts.

Metro Transportation Finance: Can Denver Avoid A Hollow Core?0

• February 6, 1989

Rapid, efficient movement of people and goods is fundamental to the vitality and prosperity of any metropolitan area, Metro Denver faces growing pains as it seeks to modernize an overcrowded transportation system so that mobility is more nearly equal for everyone and costs are more directly allocated to users.

What Justifies Reverse Discrimination In Denver's Public Works Contracting?0

• November 16, 1988

Denver this year renewed and expanded a 1983 law setting goals (in practice, quotas) for the share of public works contracts that will go to firms owned by minorities (25%) and women (12%).

But the program is vulnerable to public disapproval and judicial overturning since it fails the tests imposed by recent U.S. supreme Court and appeals court rulings.

Less Taxation and More Democracy: The Amendment 6 Prescription for Prosperity0

• October 31, 1988

he conclusion from those studies, ststistically rigorous and thoroughly documented was as follows: “An inverse relationship exists between changes in state relative tax burdens and state relative economic growth. Those states with decreasing relative tax burdens tend to experience subsequent above average economic growth. Those states with increasing relative tax burdens tend to experience subsequent below average growth.”2

Hard Questions For The "Vision Colorado" Task Force0

• October 31, 1988

Leadership, said Harry Truman, is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if it were their own. One of this year;s best examples came from the Colorado General Assembly.

Prompted by House majority leader Chris Paulson. along with Speaker Bev Bledsoe and their Senate counterparts, the legislature has enlisted fifty statewide leaders from business, professions, an civic groups in a six-month study project called vision Colorado. (See Page 10 for names and affiliations.)