Aug 21

Why #TABOR Matters on August 21

TABOR limits the growth of government (at all levels) by adding the rate of inflation and population growth to the baseline of the previous year’s budget. Taxpayers are guaranteed the right to vote on all tax increases – and receive a refund of any extra tax monies collected over the allowed amount. Unless they vote to allow the government to keep the extra money for a specific purpose. Proposition CC would let government always keep any extra tax money – without any further votes of the people.
 
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Aug 19

Proposition CC’s Ballot Language Is NOT Being Honest With Colorado

Chris P. Bacon@CPBacon4CO
 

#PropCC Ballot Language **IF** the #democrats were being honest with #Colorado

 

But they’re not being honest

 
It’s not “Technically” a tax increase, but it IS permission for them to keep OverCharging your tax bills & keep it without asking
Aug 17

Why #TABOR Matters On August 17

Proposition CC on the Nov 5 ballot, would force Colorado taxpayers to permanently forfeit our constitutionally-guaranteed tax refunds. The result: The annual state budget goes up every year, with no limits to the growth of government.
 
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Aug 15

Why TABOR Matters On August 15

Michael Fields, head of the pro-TABOR group, Colorado Rising Action, reports: “On the local level, debt increases and tax increases pass 50% of the time because voters trust their local officials. They don’t trust the legislature.”
 
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Aug 14

Why TABOR Matters on August 14

Supporters of Prop CC say that voters will still have the right to choose HOW their tax money is spent – but only if new issues are put on the ballot asking for a tax increase. Passing Prop CC would make the need to request tax money irrelevant, because the state budget would automatically grow each year.
 
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Aug 12

Ex-Basalt mayor touts new ‘social capital’ group

 

Ex-Basalt mayor touts new ‘social capital’ group

  • John Fayhee, Special to the Aspen Daily News

Tim Belinski, developer of Willits Town Center, supports Rick Stevens’ idea of starting a social capital group in Basalt.

Madeleine Osberger/Aspen Daily News

A potentially positive proposal to salve some of the wounds caused by the contentious and increasingly expensive TABOR controversy in Basalt may end up butting heads with the same town government that had been inadvertently collecting property tax revenues for 10 years in violation of the state’s constitution.

All told, town officials estimate that about $2 million had been collected illegally, according to the fine print of TABOR — the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights — which was added to the state constitution by citizens’ referendum in 1992.

TABOR restricts revenues for all levels of government — state, local, special districts and schools. Under TABOR, state and local governments cannot raise tax rates without voter approval.

Two years after TABOR was enacted, Basalt voters approved a property tax rate of 6.151 mills. Soon thereafter, given the increase of real estate values in town, that rate was lowered, finally bottoming out at 2.56 mills in 2010. As real estate values struggled to recover from the Great Recession, Basalt was forced to gradually raise the mill levy to meet its basic operating costs.

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