The anti-taxpayer majority on the Colorado Supreme Court soon will have another chance to stand the constitution on its head, thanks to a remarkably unambiguous ruling by the Colorado Court of Appeals.
Entries Tagged as 'Capitol Review'
A wonderfully concise ruling on TABOR
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments
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Democrats’ golden goose tax policy
February 14th, 2010 · No Comments
Of all the fairy tales that liberal politicians seem to believe — such as man-made global warming or that more government health care spending will reduce the deficit — there one fable they seem unable to comprehend: “The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg.”
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HB 1168: The Trial Lawyer Hypocrisy Act of 2010
February 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments
If there’s one thing personal injury lawyers are especially good at, it’s exploiting the misfortunes of their clients while devising new ways to line their own pockets.
Colorado House Bill 1168 is this year’s prime example. While claiming to help injured parties receive full compensation for damages caused by the fault of someone else, what it [...]
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Workers can’t ignore cost of PERA ‘fix’
January 26th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Rescuing the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) is nothing new for state lawmakers. Twice in the last decade, legislators have thrown PERA a lifeline, forcing the state, school districts, local governments and finally even workers to chip in hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the plan afloat.
As recently as four years ago, PERA and [...]
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Why is Bennet silent on this backroom deal?
January 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments
When politicians pick winners and losers, the stench of sleazy backroom deals is inescapable.
Colorado’s appointed U.S. Senator, Michael Bennet, has inveighed against special deals, like the ones that purchased the health care votes of Nebraska’s Ben Nelson and Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. He also talks often about the need for more competition to control costs.
Yet Bennet [...]
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Colorado can’t afford another ‘business-friendly’ Democrat
January 18th, 2010 · 11 Comments
After all the Hickenhoopla dies down, Colorado voters may experience a sick feeling of déjà vu as the Denver mayor and Democrat candidate for governor claims that he’s “business friendly.”
We’ve been down this campaign trail before, just four years ago, when nice guy Bill Ritter bent over backward to ingratiate himself to every gullible business [...]
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Hitting to all fields
December 31st, 2009 · No Comments
Barack Obama may be a far better orator than George W. Bush, but when Bush delivered a message, despite his sometimes mangled syntax, everyone knew what he stood for. Because Obama’s elocution is superior, only later do people realize they have no idea what he really meant.
If overhauling the nation’s health care system is so [...]
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A viable initiative for freedom
December 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Conservatives and libertarians fight about social issues so routinely that we assume the differences are insurmountable. Most everyone on the center-right is dubious of big government, but when it comes to protecting the unborn or preserving the traditional definition of marriage, we are divided as to government’s proper role.
Yet when the threat of big government [...]
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Warning labels for baseball bats? Say it ain’t so!
November 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
It’s natural to sympathize with the parents of Brandon Patch, the 18-year-old baseball pitcher who died after he was hit by a batted ball in 2003.
Sooner or later, sympathy must yield to logic and reason, so when Brandon’s parents sued the bat’s manufacturer, Louisville Slugger, and a jury awarded them $850,000, they contributed to the [...]
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Supreme Court’s power grab might backfire
October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme Court recently embraced, by a 4-3 decision, a judicial doctrine that would relegate the other two branches of government — and the voters — to a perfunctory role.
The high court’s activist majority used Lobato vs. State not only to intrude on the legislature’s constitutional authority to determine [...]
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