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
Category Archives: Videos
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
Aug
03
David Flaherty CEO of Magellan Strategies Talks About Proposition HH
David Flaherty is CEO of Magellan Strategies, a CO-based public opinion polling and survey research firm. He recently did an interesting poll about Proposition HH, a measure on this November’s ballot which will slightly lower property tax rates while all but eliminating (over several years) TABOR refunds. It’s a disgusting and cynical ploy which I will work hard to defeat. The poll’s findings are interesting: in short, people like HH until they understand it. The implications are obvious.
Colorado Proposition HH Opinion Survey | Magellan Strategies
Colorado Proposition HH poll shows mixed support, opposition (denverpost.com)
I also want to know: How do pollsters inform respondents about an issue, to test uninformed vs informed, without injecting bias into the question?
Click the following link to hear a recording of the show:
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Jul
13
Protecting Colorado Taxpayers and Preserving TABOR: Jonathan Williams on American Radio Journal
ALEC Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist Jonathan Williams discusses an upcoming Colorado ballot measure that would expand government spending and weaken Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), the nation’s strongest taxpayer protection.
The progressive push to undermine common sense checks on government spending is never-ending. It’s evidenced recently by the debate over the federal debt limit in Washington DC. The latest push is happening in Colorado as progressives are once again attempting to undermine the taxpayers’ Bill of Rights or TABOR, which is the gold standard of a state constitutional limit on overspending and overtaxing. It was adopted by voters as a state constitutional amendment back in 1992. It has helped restrain the growth of government and return billions of dollars to Colorado taxpayers.
However, the upcoming ballot measure in Colorado if approved, would gut TABOR in exchange for small, short-term cuts to property tax. Known as Proposition HH, this proposal tempts voters with the allure of a property tax cut with its real purpose is to clearly to water down TABOR’s tax and spending limits. My friend Ben Murray, Director of fiscal policy at the Independence Institute, described the package as a boondoggle of a property tax plan. The attacks on TABOR aren’t new. The property tax cut quote unquote, is the only latest gimmick to attempt to unleash the leviathan of big government on hardworking Coloradoans.
As the ALEC team explained in the National Review on the recent 30th anniversary of TABOR, TABOR has seen no shortage of progressive attacks which serves as an acknowledgement of the danger it presents to those that would like no constraints on the government’s ability to grow. Though all states except Bernie Sanders of Vermont have some sort of a balanced budget requirements in state law or their constitution, most don’t have robust protections such as that what TABOR offers.
Jun
09
TABOR’s Penn Pfiffner Talks With Famed Economist Dan Mitchell About Prop HH
TABOR’s Penn Pfiffner Talks With Famed Economist Dan Mitchell About Prop HH
Jun
09
TABOR’s Penn Pfiffner Talks With Famed Economist Dan Mitchell About TABOR
May
15