Supreme Court’s tax decision is Mullarkey
Colorado’s constitution plainly says that state and local governments can’t raise taxes without permission from voters. If only the Colorado Supreme Court could read plain language.
Instead, the court’s liberal majority ignores terms that should obviously protect taxpayers and instead emphasizes extraneous arguments that accommodate government.
This latest legal chicanery comes from the same playbook that turned the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom into a tool to suppress religious speech. (more…)