Jon Caldara retweeted
NEW: Ken Salazar joins Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, as well as the progressive Denver Post editorial board, in opposing Amendment 87.
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No treats. Just tricks.
Halloween scares are supposed to be fun. Ballot surprises? Not so much.
Before you cast your vote this November, take a closer look at what's on the ballot.
Watch our latest Proposition NN explainer: youtu.be/bQ03mz4TLeQ
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#AffordableColorado
Halloween scares are supposed to be fun. Ballot surprises? Not so much.
Before you cast your vote this November, take a closer look at what's on the ballot.
Watch our latest Proposition NN explainer: youtu.be/bQ03mz4TLeQ
Paid for by Affordable , Registered Agent
#AffordableColorado
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Jon Caldara retweeted
Forget ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night.
Nothing is scarier than watching your TABOR refund vanish.
This Halloween, beware of Proposition NN. Some tricks could cost you real money.
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent hinkfreedom #copolitics #PropNN
Nothing is scarier than watching your TABOR refund vanish.
This Halloween, beware of Proposition NN. Some tricks could cost you real money.
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent hinkfreedom #copolitics #PropNN
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Jon Caldara retweeted
Could Proposition NN put your TABOR refunds at risk?
On the latest TABOR Talk, Jon Caldara and Nash Herman break down how the measure could change Colorado's spending limits and what it could mean for taxpayers.
Should lawmakers have more say over how much of your money the tps://t.co/lW6bUAqy4y #thinkfreedom #copolitics
On the latest TABOR Talk, Jon Caldara and Nash Herman break down how the measure could change Colorado's spending limits and what it could mean for taxpayers.
Should lawmakers have more say over how much of your money the tps://t.co/lW6bUAqy4y #thinkfreedom #copolitics
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Jon Caldara retweeted
NEW: With Amendment 87, this ‘bracket creep’ problem will become familiar to more Coloradans than just the wealthy, despite how it is advertised.
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A vote for common sense.
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent
#thinkfreedom #copolitics #AffordableColorado
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent
#thinkfreedom #copolitics #AffordableColorado
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Well, that's a lie. If you make $100,000, your tax is 4.4%, exactly the same as it is now. Yara should read the blue book. If you make less, you get a tiny temporary tax cut, because this is not indexed for inflation. In time, all of us will be paying 8.4% income tax in Colorado because of inflation. If you have to lie to sell a proposal, maybe it's not a good proposal. #copolitics
If you make less than $500,000, you can feel good about voting to give yourself a tax cut! 🤑
Vote YES on Amendment 87 and NO on Prop 136 to *finally* deliver a more fair tax code and say good riddance to dark money lies 👋🏽
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Jon Caldara retweeted
Think our political ads are bad? Great. Make a better one and win $2,000.
Affordable Colorado is challenging you to take on Proposition NN, Amendment 87, or Issue 7A. Funny, serious, satirical, or AI-generated—we don't care. Just make it good enough to get views.
$2,000 goes to or each measure.
Deadline: October 29.
Details and rules: i2i.org/affordablecolo…
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy Registered Agent
#thinkfreedom #copolitics #AffordableColorado
Affordable Colorado is challenging you to take on Proposition NN, Amendment 87, or Issue 7A. Funny, serious, satirical, or AI-generated—we don't care. Just make it good enough to get views.
$2,000 goes to or each measure.
Deadline: October 29.
Details and rules: i2i.org/affordablecolo…
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy Registered Agent
#thinkfreedom #copolitics #AffordableColorado
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Jon Caldara retweeted
About 835,000 Colorado ballots carry a train tax question those voters can’t legally vote on. Mine is one of them.
I voted NO on 7A anyway. On purpose. I wanted to see what happens to my ballot.
Nobody can tell me.
The state, the Douglas County clerk and Arapahoe County have nt ways to toss the bad votes. In Sterling Ranch, election workers will hand-copy whole ballots. Nobody has said how many.
Douglas County, show us the paperwork.
This kind of mistake causes people to question mail-in ballots and election integrity. And the people wanting my tax dollars can't even properly draw a map.
heckuvajob.substack.com/p/my-ballot-in…
I voted NO on 7A anyway. On purpose. I wanted to see what happens to my ballot.
Nobody can tell me.
The state, the Douglas County clerk and Arapahoe County have nt ways to toss the bad votes. In Sterling Ranch, election workers will hand-copy whole ballots. Nobody has said how many.
Douglas County, show us the paperwork.
This kind of mistake causes people to question mail-in ballots and election integrity. And the people wanting my tax dollars can't even properly draw a map.
heckuvajob.substack.com/p/my-ballot-in…
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Jon Caldara retweeted
Outdated fashion is forgivable. Bad fiscal policy? Not so much.
Before you fill out your ballot, do your homework. Know what's at stake and make an informed decision.
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent
#AffordableColorado #thinkfreedom #copolitics
Before you fill out your ballot, do your homework. Know what's at stake and make an informed decision.
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent
#AffordableColorado #thinkfreedom #copolitics
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Jon Caldara retweeted
NEW: Proponents are still trying to dismiss or downplay Amendment 87’s big bracket creep problem.
completecolorado.com/2026/10/15/fat…
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Debating the timeline of bracket creep misses the big picture, which supporters of such bad policy probably prefer. #copolitics
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Jon Caldara retweeted
“Cuando los gobiernos temen a la gente, hay libertad. Cuando la gente teme al gobierno, hay tiranía”
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
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Jon Caldara retweeted
California's $128 billion high-speed rail is no longer completely useless
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GAWD, I hate the rich.
The top hats. The monocles. The dinner jackets. The way they twirl their mustaches while evicting orphans.
Before we drag them into the public square, though, we should probably define “rich.”
Amendment 87, the temporary “graduated” income tax, defines rich as earning $500,000 a year. #copolitics
And yes, it is temporary. Unlike the federal income tax brackets, 87’s brackets aren’t indexed for inflation, meaning over time all of us will creep into the new top 8.4% tax rate.
Clever scam. Con Coloradans who aren’t good at math that they’re getting a tax cut and then let inflation do the mugging.
Sell a tax increase on working families as a tax cut. You can almost hear the maniacal laughter.
Rich bastards
But back to punishing the rich — those trophy-wife-collecting, umbrella-drink-swilling bastards.
Why should they drive Maseratis while I putter around in my 2010 Nissan Altima?
Sure, we use the same roads, sit in the same traffic and can reach the same destinations. But that’s hardly the point. His cup holder has Italian stitching.
Henry Ford democratized the automobile. Before mass production, cars belonged only to the wealthy. Now ordinary people can live where they can afford a home and work where they can earn a living.
Unfortunately, Ford became rich in the process. Would we have been happier if he hadn’t? Of course we would have! We’d still be stuck in tenements, but he would have been poorer. Totally worth it.
The rich get private jets. Why? I mean, I fly private too. We all do. I simply have to share my private plane with 130 strangers.
While trapped in middle seat 34B, I use high-speed internet delivered by satellites launched on private rockets. Elon Musk uses the same service on his plane too, the showoff.
Fine, he puts satellites into orbit. Fine, his rockets have rescued astronauts stranded at the International Space Station. Fine, his satellite internet has connected every remote community around the world, empowering the poorest of the poor and least powerful.
But should he be rewarded for any of that — with money?
The iPhone in Elon’s pocket is the same as the iPhone in mine. Steve Jobs helped put a supercomputer, camera, map, library, newspaper, television studio and argument factory into billions of pockets.
But he became rich, so presumably the whole project was morally suspect.
Sam Walton drove down the price of countless things working families buy. Jeff Bezos built a system that can bring those things to our doors, sometimes in 30 minutes.
But Bezos is easy to dislike because his wife is mostly plastic, or rendered by Pixar or something.
Fine, he’s easy to hate. But does his wealth matter more than the value created for us?
Class envy on the ballot
Amendment 87 has generated plenty of talk about forcing rich people to “pay their fair share.” It has generated considerably less discussion about class envy, which is doing the political heavy lifting.
“Fair share” sounds principled. “I resent that guy’s boat and trophy wife” sounds childish.
Yet the boat is doing more campaigning than the tax tables.
We rarely stop to consider how much of modern life exists because somebody took an absurd risk.
That somebody might be a famous billionaire. It might also be the developer who built your home, the employer who created your job so you can afford it or the real estate agent who found your house.
Their success is part of your higher standard of living.
I am not claiming rich people aren’t douchebags. For efficiency’s sake, let’s stipulate that every last one of them is unbearable.
The question is whether our lives are nevertheless better because of what they created.
And do we want to chase them out of Colorado as progressive income taxes have chased them out of California, New York, Massachusetts and elsewhere? Massachusetts is now dead last in the nation for new business creation. That’s our future.
What have we sacrificed in exchange for the greatest improvement in quality of life throughout all of human history?
Mostly, we have had to endure the sight of successful people having more than us.
That seems like a remarkably small price to pay.
Amendment 87 asks you to treat envy as policy and punish people we dislike, while inflation quietly expands the definition of whom we’re punishing.
The sales pitch is “soak the rich.”
The fine print is “eventually, that means you.”
The top hats. The monocles. The dinner jackets. The way they twirl their mustaches while evicting orphans.
Before we drag them into the public square, though, we should probably define “rich.”
Amendment 87, the temporary “graduated” income tax, defines rich as earning $500,000 a year. #copolitics
And yes, it is temporary. Unlike the federal income tax brackets, 87’s brackets aren’t indexed for inflation, meaning over time all of us will creep into the new top 8.4% tax rate.
Clever scam. Con Coloradans who aren’t good at math that they’re getting a tax cut and then let inflation do the mugging.
Sell a tax increase on working families as a tax cut. You can almost hear the maniacal laughter.
Rich bastards
But back to punishing the rich — those trophy-wife-collecting, umbrella-drink-swilling bastards.
Why should they drive Maseratis while I putter around in my 2010 Nissan Altima?
Sure, we use the same roads, sit in the same traffic and can reach the same destinations. But that’s hardly the point. His cup holder has Italian stitching.
Henry Ford democratized the automobile. Before mass production, cars belonged only to the wealthy. Now ordinary people can live where they can afford a home and work where they can earn a living.
Unfortunately, Ford became rich in the process. Would we have been happier if he hadn’t? Of course we would have! We’d still be stuck in tenements, but he would have been poorer. Totally worth it.
The rich get private jets. Why? I mean, I fly private too. We all do. I simply have to share my private plane with 130 strangers.
While trapped in middle seat 34B, I use high-speed internet delivered by satellites launched on private rockets. Elon Musk uses the same service on his plane too, the showoff.
Fine, he puts satellites into orbit. Fine, his rockets have rescued astronauts stranded at the International Space Station. Fine, his satellite internet has connected every remote community around the world, empowering the poorest of the poor and least powerful.
But should he be rewarded for any of that — with money?
The iPhone in Elon’s pocket is the same as the iPhone in mine. Steve Jobs helped put a supercomputer, camera, map, library, newspaper, television studio and argument factory into billions of pockets.
But he became rich, so presumably the whole project was morally suspect.
Sam Walton drove down the price of countless things working families buy. Jeff Bezos built a system that can bring those things to our doors, sometimes in 30 minutes.
But Bezos is easy to dislike because his wife is mostly plastic, or rendered by Pixar or something.
Fine, he’s easy to hate. But does his wealth matter more than the value created for us?
Class envy on the ballot
Amendment 87 has generated plenty of talk about forcing rich people to “pay their fair share.” It has generated considerably less discussion about class envy, which is doing the political heavy lifting.
“Fair share” sounds principled. “I resent that guy’s boat and trophy wife” sounds childish.
Yet the boat is doing more campaigning than the tax tables.
We rarely stop to consider how much of modern life exists because somebody took an absurd risk.
That somebody might be a famous billionaire. It might also be the developer who built your home, the employer who created your job so you can afford it or the real estate agent who found your house.
Their success is part of your higher standard of living.
I am not claiming rich people aren’t douchebags. For efficiency’s sake, let’s stipulate that every last one of them is unbearable.
The question is whether our lives are nevertheless better because of what they created.
And do we want to chase them out of Colorado as progressive income taxes have chased them out of California, New York, Massachusetts and elsewhere? Massachusetts is now dead last in the nation for new business creation. That’s our future.
What have we sacrificed in exchange for the greatest improvement in quality of life throughout all of human history?
Mostly, we have had to endure the sight of successful people having more than us.
That seems like a remarkably small price to pay.
Amendment 87 asks you to treat envy as policy and punish people we dislike, while inflation quietly expands the definition of whom we’re punishing.
The sales pitch is “soak the rich.”
The fine print is “eventually, that means you.”
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Colorado Inside Out talks about our AI version of Senator Cathy Kipp. Are we law breakers?
Starts at about 19 minutes in. #coleg #copolitics
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Starts at about 19 minutes in. #coleg #copolitics
video.pbs12.org/video/october-…
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Jon Caldara retweeted
Proposition NN wants to keep your tax refunds forever.
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent
#thinkfreedom #copolitics #AffordableColorado
Paid for by Affordable Colorado, Katie Kennedy, Registered Agent
#thinkfreedom #copolitics #AffordableColorado
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This is a great quick read. @HollywoodInToto nails the hypocracy. Shane Gillis Must Be Stopped! (But Not Hasan Piker?) hollywoodintoto.com/shane-gillis-s… via @HollywoodInToto
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