BackboneAmerica

Four years ago, Colorado voters decided to trust Democrats with complete control of state government – the governor’s (more…)

After imposing more than $1 billion a year in tax and fee increases – without once seeking voter approval – liberal Democrats in the Colorado legislature (more…)

By Peg Brady

(April 15) As I reached the already vast gathering at the Colorado State Capitol this morning, a speaker proclaimed, “Let freedom ring!” The crowd echoed his joyous words, (more…)

Nancy Sharpe and Lauri Clapp both bring a fiscally conservative resume to the GOP primary for Arapahoe County commissioner, (more…)

As the Aurora City Council prepares to vote on a highly questionable real estate subsidy Monday night, I have lent my voice to a robo-call opposing the deal. (more…)

(Denver Post, Feb. 21) Mobilize the militia. Fire up the Humvee. Get down the musket off the mantelpiece. Boulder is preparing to invade Colorado. Yes, a lawyer from up in the progressive paradise says that your right to vote on taxes violates his constitutional entitlement to ever-increasing teacher salaries and NEA indoctrination of our kids. The invasion is no joke, because Herbert Fenster is a legal heavyweight and his intended enforcer is a robed priesthood answerable to no one. TABOR could be in trouble. (more…)

By Bill Moloney

States with constitutional and/or statutory restraints on taxing and spending have strong financial foundations because those restraints greatly militate toward the positive business climate and robust economy that invariably generate increased revenues across the board.
Colorado, which has had such restraints since 1992, is a prime example of their great benefits. California — today having the nation’s most disastrous state economy — once had such restraints but cast them aside some years ago and consequently has become the poster child for what happens to states that fall into the trap of unrestrained taxing and spending. (more…)

Colorado Springs councilwoman Jan Martin says you’re rich and that you don’t mind paying a lot more in taxes. If she’s right (more…)

Our Aug. 20 radio special noted that while DC politicians are talking in trillions, folks in Colorado are steamed about a $32 vehicle fee (more…)

The Colorado Union of Taxpayers, a non-partisan group advocating for taxpayers, has released its 2009 CUT Ratings of the Legislature, (more…)

Impending mortality tends to focus the mind, and looming elections tend to focus politicians’ ears on vox populi. But just as theologians (more…)

If you’ve registered a vehicle lately, you may be suffering from mild sticker shock, but don’t blame the Clerk and Recorder’s Office. (more…)

(Wellfleet, MA – July 20) This is a small Cape Cod community –about 500 people when I was growing up- now part of Massachusetts’ National Seashore Park. It’s also home (more…)

Taxpayers fight back

With Colorado’s governor, legislature, and Supreme Court actively colluding to gut or repeal the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, just when California’s fiscal collapse dramatizes the need for TABOR, citizens are circulating three petitions to fight back. We featured them July 5 on Backbone Radio. Here are the web links where you can find out how to sign the petitions, (more…)

RTD and its Fastracks rail system are a mess. In his June 11 radio special, John Andrews asked why. The podcast is now up. (more…)