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“Restoring fiscal sanity to state government” was the hook for donations to The Bell Policy Center in a solicitation I received (more…)

Bill “Recession” Ritter, as disgusted House Republicans now call Colorado’s chief executive, managed only a D in the Cato Institute’s (more…)

Obama admits that raising taxes decreases revenue. He does not hide that his goal in increasing taxes on individuals and small (more…)

RTD presents five FasTracks options to the public. All are permutations of the original plan, ranging from shortened lines (more…)

Today, Daniel Henninger has a brilliant piece in the Wall Street Journal that lays bare the true significance of an Obama victory. (more…)

Contrary to popular belief, the citizen initiative process is not inherently - or even incidentally - conservative. Like government, (more…)

(Source: StrikeABetterBalance.com) Amendment 59 isn’t about education funding, it’s an attack on TABOR. The biggest tax increase (more…)

Editor: Conservative gadfly Tom Graham of Arvada scored a media coup with his satirical “why vote yes” entry in the Jefferson County (more…)

(Source: National Taxpayers Union) Colorado voters made history in 1992 when they enacted TABOR, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, (more…)

Editor: Suppose the education lobby asked to put a tollbooth at your front door where they would charge you 50 cents every day (more…)

Nope, it’s really the headlight on an oncoming train. RTD admits it won’t be able to finish FasTracks without a tax increase, (more…)

Obama isn’t the agent of change he pretended to be during the primaries. He’s an old-school “tax and spend” liberal who will pursue (more…)

Breathe easy, taxpayers. The Denver Post’s big-government dinosaur, Bob Ewegen, informs us “the good folks” are finally back in charge (more…)

If Douglas Bruce authored a ballot initiative that simply said, “Taxes shall be reduced by $300 million a year” but couldn’t explain (more…)

Out of the 15 states that limit legislative terms, 10 rank near the top in economic competitive- ness among the 50 states. Colorado, one of the first to enact term limits back in 1990, ranks 7th. (more…)