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Leviathan by Loophole: the Growth of Colorado’s State Government After TABOR
Introduction and Key Findings In 1992, Coloradans passed Amendment 1 to enshrine Article X, Section 20, known as the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), in the state constitution. The preferred interpretation of the measure, as stated in the ballot…
Colorado due for a reckoning over runaway Medicaid…
The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee (JBC) recently held a hearing with the Department of…
The case for broad-based Colorado income tax relief
Colorado policymakers recently rediscovered what some of us have long known: more money in people’s…
Taxpayers on the hook for growing cost of government…
Debt is a powerful and beneficial tool when used appropriately. Unfortunately, at the state,…
Nash Herman Discusses False Claims About Colorado’s…
Independence Institute Policy Analyst Nash Herman appeared on the Free State Colorado podcast this…
Empty promises fill ‘progressive’ Colorado tax hike measure
The newest iteration of the so-called “progressive” income tax hike being pushed for the 2026 Colorado ballot raises serious concerns that it does much more than its proponents would have voters believe. Peering beyond the slogans and apparent…
What Colorado’s state treasurer gets wrong about…
In a recent Denver Post opinion piece, State Treasurer Dave Young urges higher taxes on the wealthy…
Progressive income tax means a more volatile Colorado…
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the books Antifragile and The Black Swan, defines fragility as:…
Colorado voters sold false bill of goods with Props LL…
According to recent Joint Budget Committee staff analysis, Colorado’s Healthy School Meals for All…
Colorado voters force the few to subsidize school lunch…
Colorado voters on Tuesday passed Propositions LL and MM by wider margins than 2022’s Proposition…
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