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Post by WhoSaidYouSaid on September 13th, 2011 | Proposition 103, Recent Videos
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's humorous riff in January that "there’s no appetite for taxes anywhere, all over the state. Well, maybe a couple neighborhoods in Boulder...," is reverberating in September, now that Proposition 103, the $3 billion tax hike pushed...
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Post by Kelly Maher on May 15th, 2011 | Recent Videos
We've all wondered - particularly around tax time (or for me, extension time, so I can live in denial for another six months) - just how much the government takes, not just in taxes, but in opportunity...
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Post by Kelly Maher on May 3rd, 2011 | Kelly Maher, Recent Videos
Colorado state Sen. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield, is a fiscal conservative. That's why it was so interesting to watch him try to make the case for growing government revenues. However, his economics lesson fell on deaf ears among Democratic...
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Post by Kelly Maher on April 25th, 2011 | Recent Videos
I ran into Ken Buck, the 2010 GOP candidate for U.S. Senate from Colorado, and the founder of Balance America, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally this month in Denver. Here's what he had to...
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Post by Kelly Maher on March 24th, 2011 | Kelly Maher, Recent Videos
Coloradans deserve to know what's been the communication between state Sen. Rollie Heath and Carol Hedges on the issue of tax hikes - BEFORE anything potentially reaches the ballot. That's why I've made a Colorado Open Records Act request. I'll...
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Post by Michael Sandoval on February 17th, 2011 | Colo. Politics, John Hickenlooper, Recent Videos, Sandoval
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
Colorado state Rep. Sal Pace, D-Pueblo, was rebuffed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in a way that made the Democratic governor look like a model of fiscal austerity, versus the whining entitlement sentimentality of his fellow Democratic party...
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Post by Michael Sandoval on February 16th, 2011 | Colo. Politics, John Hickenlooper, Recent Videos, Sandoval
"There are people all over the state, and not a small number, that have no job," Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said to state Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, regarding a proposal to have public employees contribute more to their pension...
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Post by Kelly Maher on December 17th, 2010 | Colo. Politics, Kelly Maher, Recent Videos
Carol Hedges, director of the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, is spearheading a proposed ballot initiative to restructure Colorado's taxes. Watch the video clip at left from a recent Title Setting Board meeting to hear how the language surrounding a potential...
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Post by Kelly Maher on November 1st, 2010 | Colo. Politics, Ed Perlmutter, Kelly Maher, Recent Videos
Former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, Republican of Colorado, has said that his successor in the 7th Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., is "not only wrong, he's corrupt." When I asked Beauprez about that remark, here's what he...
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