It’s nice to get a refund check in the mail from the government. Even better is not overpaying the government in the first place.
All three ballot measures will impact the tax base in Longmont for the next 20 years for property taxes and indefinitely for sales taxes.
As more people understand Proposition HH is not tax relief but the largest tax increase in Colorado history, it will collapse under its own weight.
Proposition HH is such an obvious bait-and-switch scam that it insults the intelligence of voters.
“Prop HH will have a long-term negative effect on TABOR with a minimal short-term benefit.”–Delta County Commissioner Don Suppes
Remember this: even if Proposition HH passes, property taxes will still increase.
Golden is following a few other communities across Colorado in asking its voters to raise the cost of living through a pair of ballot measures
“If our taxes are not already being appropriated to these essential services, maybe city leaders ought to take a hard look at their budgeting strategies, instead of coming to the citizens hat-in-hand yet again,” Fort Collins resident Sarah Hunt.
Nothing stops these local governments from lowering the mill, and refusing to lower the tax rate is to purposefully do financial harm to residents.
This year, property assessments have increased by nearly 40 percent and more across the state, meaning large increases in property taxes are looming for 2024,
Local governments across Colorado are putting local initiatives on the ballot with TABOR implications.
Submitting comments in the TABOR notice costs almost nothing and takes relatively little time and energy.
