A January, 2019 poll showed that 71 percent of Coloradoans support TABOR – when they understand how it works.
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Aug
20
Why #TABOR Matters on August 20
Category Archives: TABOR Refunds
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
18
Why #TABOR Matters On August 18
Proposition CC gives politicians a permanent blank check.
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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
16
Why TABOR Matters on August 16
Democrat legislators call the efforts to repeal TABOR “an overhaul.”
Don’t be fooled; it’s a power grab.
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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
Proposition CC Analogy
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
SENGENBERGER | Safeguard TABOR — and stand up for Colorado taxpayers
The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights is under attack. For at least a decade, Democrats in the Colorado legislature — backed by the Colorado Supreme Court in erroneous rulings and occasionally supported by faithless Republicans — have thwarted some of the protections afforded to Coloradans by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.
Typically, these successful assaults against TABOR have come from taxes disguised as “fees.” In fact, this past legislative session Democrats even proposed financing a paid family leave program with a payroll tax (like the Social Security tax) that they would again have labeled a “fee.” (This legislation is likely to return next session.)
But this year’s attack — Proposition CC, put on the ballot by the Democrat-controlled General Assembly and backed by Gov. Jared Polis (D) — is particularly troublesome. Recall that the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights was passed in 1992 and provides two essential protections for Coloradans. First, the amendment requires a vote of the people to raise taxes (unless legislators call it a “fee,” as discussed).
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.