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Entries Tagged as 'Capitol Review'

Anti-TABOR lawsuit is cynical slap at voters

May 26th, 2011 · Comments Off

Because those doggone Coloradans just won’t vote to increase taxes often enough, a cadre of folks who just can’t bear to see state government spend less is asking a federal judge to do something voters won’t – to strike down voters’ constitutional right to approve tax increases. Led by Democrat State Rep. Andy Kerr, plaintiffs [...]

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Gerrymandering by any other name: still the same

May 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

Gerrymandering — the conspicuous, irregular manipulating of electoral district boundaries to advantage one political party or candidate — is widely considered a distasteful, if not downright corrupt, practice. Through gerrymandering, incumbent politicians seek to choose their voters rather than vice versa, packing their legislative or congressional districts with enough like-minded constituents to make re-election almost [...]

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Trial lawyer logic: Right to sue more important than jobs

April 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments

To hear trial lawyers and their anti-business enablers tell it, the only thing that prevents Colorado employers from literally chaining workers to their desks is the “right to sue” their dastardly bosses.  In this fantasy world, trial lawyers never bring frivolous lawsuits and fired employees never file dubious claims motivated but grudges against their former [...]

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Unions, mandates at root of states’ budget stress

March 13th, 2011 · No Comments

The high-stakes battle to determine whether the people will serve government or government will serve the people is unfolding in state capitols. Wisconsin is the tip of the iceberg.  Though not as fiscally imperiled as California or Illinois, Wisconsin is symbolic — the birthplace of government employee unions, once considered illegitimate even by liberal icons [...]

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Are we serious about debt? We will soon find out

March 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments

The next two years will almost certainly determine whether Americans possess the resolve and courage necessary to save our country from fiscal disaster. If we do not, then the Americans will likely succumb to the European mindset that work is not a source of accomplishment or satisfaction but merely a way to bide time between [...]

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Balancing budget won’t be easy, but must be done

February 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment

It’s a political reality: talking about how to govern is far easier than actually governing. Government, after all, is a reflection of the governed and nothing requires individual voters or “the people” in general to act responsibly.  That observation is not an indictment of the electorate but an acknowledgement that voters are never forced to [...]

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House GOP sets sights conservatively on spending

January 31st, 2011 · No Comments

During much of the last decade December has greeted legislators with gloomy revenue forecasts that confirm there won’t be enough money to pay for the spending they budgeted in April.  Drastic budget reductions ensue in order to balance the budget in final few months of the fiscal year. Generally, legislators respond as if trapped in [...]

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What we should expect from Republican majorities

January 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments

As Republican majorities take the reigns of power both in Congress and in the Colorado House of Representatives, they carry the lofty expectations of their supporters alongside the inconvenient reality that Democrats still control half of the legislative branch plus the executive. Practically speaking, Republicans can do only so much, but that certainly doesn’t mean [...]

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Punishing success an article of faith for Left

December 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Give at least this much credit to the liberals “progressives” (LPs) in the Democratic Party:  they don’t let little things like losing 63 seats in Congress discourage them. For LPs, a Robin Hood tax policy – one that extracts higher taxes from the successful and industrious and spends it on expensive social welfare programs for [...]

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Phantom damages defy law, common sense

November 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Whether “haggling” at a garage sale or for the best deal on a vehicle, most of us understand the give-and-take that often determines a fair price. A seller asks a price that is more than he needs to cover costs and a potential buyer responds by offering less than she is actually willing to pay.  [...]

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