Have Colorado lawmakers cried wolf about the state’s budget too many times? The state legislature, after recently reconciling a billion-dollar “budget shortfall” due mostly to a relentless overspending habit, is now back in the barber chair for yet another fiscal haircut. And while legislators are still overspending and overpromising, state revenue reductions from taxpayer-friendly policy| Independence Institute - Think Freedom
We dive into some of the numbers for the new Federal Tax-Credit Scholarship and compute what the income cut-offs will be.| EdChoice
It is something of a cliche to argue that Britain is running out of money, living beyond its means, wandering through a fiscal fool’s paradise – but no less true for that. The trend of …| Freethinking Economist
Governor Jared Polis has been a consistent advocate for eliminating the state income tax, or at least “buying it down” through the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) surplus. This year, Polis claimed that legislation passed in 2024 did “deliver on that promise” to reduce the income tax rate, but Independence Institute’s research finds that legislation| Independence Institute - Think Freedom
Jo Michell has written a good piece in Tribune countering arguments from some on the Left around the necessity of taxation. It’s a short piece that you should read, but I understood it as goin…| principlesandinterest
An idea you’ll likely hate. Monetary policy is pretty much universally understood to be the only fast and responsive macroeconomic policy lever. I mean, maybe you could make a case for foreign exch…| principlesandinterest