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What You Need to Know About Amendment 73 and Public Education Funding (Colorado)
Independence Institute - Fiscal Policy Center ^ | September 18, 2018 | Linda Gorman

Posted on 09/18/2018 7:33:28 PM PDT by george76

In November 2018, voters will decide on Amendment 73, a state constitutional amendment which would increase income, property and corporate taxes in Colorado

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Amendment 73 effectively ends protections against continuous increases in residential property taxes. It increases the state residential property tax assessment rate for school districts. Commercial property will enjoy reduced rates.

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Amendment 73 reduces legislative oversight by locking increased spending into the state constitution.

There is no guarantee that more spending will increase educational opportunities for existing students.

(Excerpt) Read more at i2i.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: amendment73; colorado; incometaxes; propertytaxes; taxes
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1 posted on 09/18/2018 7:33:28 PM PDT by george76
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To: MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; backspace; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; bravo whiskey; Carley; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


2 posted on 09/18/2018 7:34:08 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Wait. I thought the legalized marijuana tax was going to solve all our problems. Now you tell me the dems still have their hands in my pockets? Let me show you my shocked face....


3 posted on 09/18/2018 7:37:09 PM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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I wish the producers would just leave Colorado and let the Left figure out how to pay for everything from here on out.


4 posted on 09/18/2018 7:39:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Mom MD

Dems always lie and they never have enough of our money.


5 posted on 09/18/2018 7:39:18 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Never repeal TABOR!


6 posted on 09/18/2018 7:39:22 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: DoughtyOne

Polis will drive out more energy producers.


7 posted on 09/18/2018 7:43:54 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Mom MD

Yeah the millions from marijuana should have them feeling happy but no, it’s time to play the school “crisis” card again to fund the NEA. Enough is enough!


8 posted on 09/18/2018 7:44:20 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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Why is there a state residential property tax assessment? Why aren't these taxes decided locally?

Looks like Colorado has got itself in the same mess as California with Prop 13. By turning property taxes into a state issue, now its the state and not the cities and counties that get to decide how wasteful they want to be when spending on education.

Conservatives and Republicans think they are smart when they gain control of the state. They make statewide laws regarding taxes and regulations. Only later when the state gets taken over by liberals and RINOs should they realize the error in their ways.

But they never do. The pubbies and conservatives in California still don't realize what a fustercluck Prop 13 has become after years of liberal domination at the state level.

9 posted on 09/18/2018 7:45:23 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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It’s what they do...

I wish there were a way to dismantle the homes and businesses of Conservatives, and move them elsewhere, without taking a big loss.

Just gut the infrastructure of the state and watch it twitch in it’s death throws.


10 posted on 09/18/2018 7:50:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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Thanks, george. Emailing right now.


11 posted on 09/18/2018 7:52:36 PM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Fix Our Damn Roads, everything else is a NO.


12 posted on 09/18/2018 9:23:36 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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Here in NJ we have local property taxes to pay for our schools, emergency responders, public works - and in theory it is good because you have more control over local issues at the ballot box. The problem is the sh!tholes have no revenue, so we have to pay for everything for them as well (through other taxes - fed, state, county). Also, once teachers’ unions dominate your politics, all of the money is funneled to them (and much of that on to the Democratic Party), so you lose your other services. Now we have crappy roads, “stop” signs covered by foliage, rampant crime, and the highest paid teachers in the country. After a few decades of this, you’ll end up spending a lot of current revenues on the retirement benefits of people who haven’t worked for years. Anyone considering moving to your state or opening a business there realizes they’d just be buying a piece of a massive IOU, and they go elsewhere (to cheaper pastures).


13 posted on 09/19/2018 2:56:25 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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State pension fund must really be in the red.


14 posted on 09/19/2018 3:19:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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Now in NJ we’re in stage 3 - the end stage: Americans are fleeing (following employers in a mass exodus from the state), and they are being replaced by trafficked foreigners bolstered by all sorts of government aid to create a pseudo-economy based on nothing more than wealth redistribution. The government worker caste is our upper middle class, while McJobs or unemployment are increasingly the norm. We recently elected a Dem governor who pledged to raise taxes (before the election!), so we’ll continue as the highest-taxed state in the country; the election showed a real tipping point had been reached, where taxpayers were outnumbered/outvoted by “takers”.


15 posted on 09/19/2018 3:23:27 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Just checked...CO has $94.2 billion in public pension liabilities versus $43.4 billion in assets. BOHICA, taxpayers.


16 posted on 09/19/2018 3:29:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: kearnyirish2

You just described NYS, too.


17 posted on 09/19/2018 3:30:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Mom MD

I’m a retired grandma, with no kids in school. I moved here to Denver 4 years ago, and watched my taxes go up and up. I see big pot stores on every corner and in between, with their parking lots full. Aren’t they taxed enough, already? (Pun intended...)


18 posted on 09/19/2018 7:49:07 AM PDT by redhead (PRAYfor little ones in pedo pipeline: child livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
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I’ve lived in Denver 50 years. Sent all my kids to parochial schools and paid property tax for the last 32 years when I became a homeowner. I have seen this state go from deep red to wacky blue illegal alien coddling leagized pot addled wreckage. They don’t need my tax dollars let them tax the potheads more. After all that was going to stop all of the states budget problems so go get em....


19 posted on 09/19/2018 7:54:46 AM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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20 posted on 09/19/2018 8:29:45 AM PDT by conservativeimage (Islam Kills Everything - The FBI Lets It)
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