TABOR, or the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, can be confusing for many residents, even though it plays a big role in the amount of services a city can offer. Check out this video for a quick and easy explanation.
Jan
12
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Jan
12
ALEC on American Radio Journal: Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights Turns 30
This month marks the 30th anniversary of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), which was approved by voters in November of 1992 as a constitutional tax and expenditure limit (TEL). TABOR is considered the gold standard of state fiscal rules because it limits the growth of most of Colorado’s spending and revenue to inflation plus population. If the state government collects more tax dollars than TABOR allows, the money is returned to taxpayers as a TABOR refund. The receipt of tax rebates, totaling $8.2 billion since TABOR passed in 1992, has strengthened Colorado citizens’ confidence in the TABOR Amendment over the years. To learn more about TABOR and effective TELs, read our latest report and visit FiscalRules.org
Jan
12
Freedom Minute | Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR)
Economist Dr. Paul Prentice explains Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) amendment. TABOR allows the state budget to grow each year at population plus inflation, while giving taxpayers the ability to vote on all tax and debt increases.
Jan
12
The Importance of Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights
Former President of the Independence Institute and former Colorado State Senate President John Andrews gives a brief history of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR), how it’s been altered through the years, and what the future holds.
Jan
12
Freedom Minute | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about TABOR
Nov
02
Only tax INCREASES have to go on the ballot. Vote NO on Prop HH
Only tax INCREASES have to go on the ballot.
Tax DECREASES do not.
Prop HH is on the ballot. . . .
Don’t be fooled by Leftist smoke and mirrors.
This is one of the biggest money grabs in Colorado history.
#ItsYourMoneyNotTheirs
#DontBeFooled
#VoteNoOnPropHH
#TABOR
Oct
23
Hillman: How Proposition HH picks Colorado taxpayers’ pockets
We didn’t need an election this November to receive a modest property tax reduction. The legislature can cut taxes anytime; it doesn’t need voter approval.
But with Coloradans facing the largest property tax increase of our lifetime due to soaring home prices, the legislature chose to put a massive expansion of government on the ballot disguised as a property tax cut.
Remember this: even if Proposition HH passes, property taxes will still increase. If property values double in the next 10 years, so will property taxes.
The deceptive ballot question asks: “Shall the state reduce property taxes for homes and businesses…” That sounds good, so voters may not read much further. Even if they do, the ballot never explains voting “yes” is agreeing to give up refunds under the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR) and to permanently increase the cost of state government. Continue reading
Oct
20
Hear The TABOR Coalition Radio Ad Against Proposition HH & Please Share It
#DontBeFooled
#ItsYourMoneyNotTheirs
#VoteNoOnPropHH
#TABOR
Oct
17
The Real Price Of Ballot Prop HH
The TABOR Committee welcomed the campaign by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) to oppose Proposition HH.
The organization is the nation’s leading group that represents small business, which includes individual retailers, independent professional practices and others that keep our country’s economy humming. Colorado’s state chapter is at the forefront of the opposition. The NFIB must have a supermajority of its members in order to take a position and all NFIB surveys and ballots must be statistically valid before release. This vote was 9 to 1 to defeat Prop HH! “It’s hard for any group to get such unanimity about even the time of day,” observed TABOR Committee Chairman Penn Pfiffner. “It’s wonderfully overwhelming to see that strong vote from businesses across the state.”
The NFIB has been speaking out against Proposition HH and running radio ads. You can listen to those ads by clicking here.
“We’re calling out Proposition HH for what it really is, a bait-and-switch, offering a temporary property tax cut but undoing TABOR refunds,” said Tony Gagliardi, the Colorado NFIB state director.
You can find more information at NFIB’s web page that covers its assessment of Proposition HH at https://www.nfib.com/refund-colorado/
#DontBeFooled
#ItsYourMoneyNotTheirs
#VoteNoOnPropHH
#TABOR
Oct
10
Raising your taxes is why Prop HH is on the ballot this November.
The Colorado Legislature is legally required to get your vote if they want to RAISE taxes. They can LOWER taxes at any point and without your vote.
Raising your taxes is why Prop HH is on the ballot this November.
#DontBeFooled
#ItsYourMoneyNotTheirs
#VoteNoOnPropHH
#TABOR