Author: By Jon Caldara
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COLUMN: Property tax con job continues | Jon Caldara
If you’ve opened your property tax assessment you’ve already had your coronary. Your property value has gone up between 30% and 70%. That means because the Legislature, under Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter, froze mill levy rates (preventing them from lowering) and because voters foolishly repealed the Gallagher Amendment in 2020, your property taxes are going…
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COLUMN: House bill without a home | Jon Caldara
The most troublesome bill for legislators this session is Senate Bill 213, Gov. Jared Polis’s own pride and joy, that he promises will create a “home for every budget.” So, is this bill good or bad? Well, it’s a little of both. Absolutely. It’s hard to summarize SB-213, not only because it’s more than 100…
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Polis must cash in his political capital | CALDARA
Our governor is mega-wealthy in terms of personal cash, able to buy himself a term on the State Board of Education for a cool million when no previous candidate spent more than $10,000. Then he bought five terms as a U.S. congressman and two terms as Colorado’s top executive. But Polis doesn’t just have monetary…
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Now’s the time for another income tax cut | CALDARA
It’s time for voters to permanently lower the state income tax. Again. Since the Legislature won’t do it, I’ve just filed another citizen’s initiative to force the issue. This will be my third tax cut time at bat. My first was in 2020. It took our flat 4.63% income tax rate to 4.55%. It didn’t…
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COLUMN: A legislature that slaps down its own constituents | Jon Caldara
Hubris. Condescension. Arrogance. Self-importance. Haughtiness. I would like to put up just one small, recent vignette as an example of the sheer imperiousness the ruling party of Colorado displays toward its subjects. Oh, no doubt Republicans can be sore losers in their super-super-minority status as they’ve continually lost more and more power over the last…
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COLUMN: Time for men to be believed | Jon Caldara
A recent near-death experience brought me too close to what many men deal with at this time of the year but find too shameful to discuss. Societal gender norms still run deep. I fear women often simply have no idea how dangerously close to the edge their men get sometimes. I was in that grave,…
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COLUMN: What my own transient costs | Jon Caldara
I’m not asking a lot. I just want the vagrant who sleeps under my window to go somewhere else. Anywhere else. I just want this druggie to stop sleeping under my office window because I’m tired of cleaning up after him like I’m his freaking hotel maid. You may note that after years of this…
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Cold snap shows shameful priorities | CALDARA
I hear over and over that the true measure of a society can be found by how it treats its most vulnerable members. That refrain is sung every time another subsidy program is funded to support the vagrants who camp on our streets, defecate on our sidewalks and leave needles for our children to discover.…
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Cold snap shows shameful priorities | CALDARA
I hear over and over that the true measure of a society can be found by how it treats its most vulnerable members. That refrain is sung every time another subsidy program is funded to support the vagrants who camp on our streets, defecate on our sidewalks and leave needles for our children to discover.…
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Colorado’s left employs violence pimps | CALDARA
Here’s an example of how the left funds a system to accuse their foes of “hate,” all while employing violent hate-group organizers themselves. The progressive guru Saul Alinsky laid out an effective battle plan for the left’s cultural socialistic revolution, the heights of which are being played out now throughout America, and in Colorado specifically.…