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Gov. Polis Eyes Taxpayer Refunds as Budget Wound Band-Aid
Colorado’s structural budget challenges continue to collide with wishful thinking and a lack of accountability. What’s more, Joint Budget Committee (JBC) analysts disagree with Governor Polis’ office on how best to address the state’s fiscal…
Medicaid’s ‘Perverse Incentives’ Tanking Colorado’s…
Colorado’s ongoing budget-gap struggles are the predictable result of structural problems with…
Colorado Lawmakers Cry Poverty, Give Handouts to…
In the latest edition of “why care about Colorado’s budget shortfall if our legislators won’t,”…
Senate Bill 42: Latest Legislative Workaround to…
Similar to last year’s Senate Bill 173, legislative Democrats are returning this year with another…
Fiscal Policy Center’s Testimony on Bill to Reclassify…
On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Independence Institute’s Fiscal Policy Center Policy Analyst Nash…
Balancing Colorado’s Budget Means Ending Medicaid Bloat
Colorado’s budget deficits will continue until Medicaid spending improves. As the National Association of State Budget Officers has pointed out, Colorado’s “FY25 spending gap was due, primarily, to Medicaid related over-expenditures.” As reported by…
Colorado’s sweetheart tax deals roll on in spite of…
If Colorado legislators aren’t taking this year’s alleged “budget crisis” seriously, why should the…
How TABOR was betrayed – Independence Institute
This column first appeared in The Gazette on February 1st, 2026. If you have lived in Colorado for…
Nash Herman Discusses How TABOR Failed to Stop…
Independence Institute Policy Analyst Nash Herman appeared on The Mandy Connell Podcast this week to…
Colorado lawmakers in denial over self-inflicted budget…
In the wise words of Peter Tosh, “you can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the…
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