CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
December 01, 2018 07:34 AM UTC
11 Comments
Colorado doing it's best to bankrupt small businesses.
An interesting question to me is the following – is the State government just stupid? Or are they purposefully trying to eliminate small online businesses in the state?
It's a political philosophy. Local control implies local taxation. And you'l take away local control over many dead bodies in this state.
The state is desperate. They need to find revenue that is not a tax increase that needs to be approved by voters. So they are taking away exemptions. Yes, this is crazy, but that's Tabor.
Along with the idea that sales taxes might be approved since they might be paid by someone from outside your small town/county they are more popular with voters than property tax, the other easy place for localities to look for money.
Yet another way that's easy is sin taxes, as long as it's not your sin: alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, or gambling.
We need a stiff surtax on Bible sales!
I've been in Colorado now pushing 38 years (next spring). A branch of my family; since died out; was here from the 19th century into the 1980s.
I have never figured out why Colorado has so many taxing districts. And many of the special districts are non-transparent regarding how they spend money. Membership on some district boards seems to be near life-long appointments, via poorly publicized elections. Taxpayer advocacy groups need to pay much more attention to these districts.
And yet, somehow, Hickenlooper is credited for being "business friendly" and pursuing and the 3Es – Efficiency, Effectiveness and Elegance.
My wife, a software engineer, always says that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong, that's TABOR
Your wife is correct. Then the Department of Revenue gets involved and things get even worse.
Sales tax is stupid, multiple districts are stupid, all taxes suck (tarrifs the most).
But then what?