TABOR - Independence Institute

Guess Who Stopped a Tax Grab (It Wasn’t Me)0
- Newsletter
- May 2, 2022
I don’t like country music, but I won’t denigrate those who do. And for you people who like country music, denigrate means “put down.” There’s an old country song titled, “If Your Phone Don’t Ring, You Know It’s Me.” And here’s why I’m thinking about it: How much did this one lady save Colorado taxpayers?
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We Just Suffered a Setback 0
- Newsletter
- April 25, 2022
Yep, disappointment. I bought a DVD on how to deal with disappointment. When I opened the box, it was empty. We are tenacious here at Independence. We are never content to just research or comment on what needs to be done to advance the Colorado Character. We take action. After seeing some of the questionable,
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Guess Who’s Learning about the Cold War for the First Time 0
- Newsletter
- February 25, 2022
You’ve heard me babble on about my daughter, Piper, who I fear is more conservative than I. I fall on the libertarian side of the fence, she falls on the conservative side of the fence. And then, well, she plans to turn the fence into a big, beautiful wall that I am to pay for.
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Watch Them Shoot Down These Great Ideas!0
- Newsletter
- January 14, 2022
Since our founding in the mid-1980s, Independence Institute has worked on turning great policy ideas into legal reality. From TABOR to term limits, charter schools, and concealed carry, we bring ideas forward and move them from being ridiculed into law. So, imagine our excitement to see Republican leaders in both the State House and Senate
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Federal court dismisses anti-TABOR lawsuit 0
- Constitution, TABOR
- December 24, 2021
The court should have dismissed this lawsuit immediately . . . .[But] we at Colorado’s Independence Institute took it very seriously. We anticipated that unscrupulous liberal jurists might seize on it as a way to destroy TABOR.
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Our Christmas Gift to all Taxpayers 0
- Newsletter
- December 23, 2021
As you may know, I’m dyslexic. Even though I wrote Santa a letter every year growing up, he never visited. I only recently realized I was sending them to Satan. Speaking of Christmas, all of our hard work protecting our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights continues to pay you dividends. Here is what our work is
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