The dirty dozen tax hike bills scheduled to be rammed through Colorado’s Senate Finance Committee tomorrow? Legislative analysts released fiscal notes for 11 of the 12 bills this afternoon — they estimate a total net tax increase of $20.4 million for the rest of the current fiscal year (through June 30, 2010), and a total net tax increase of more than $337 million between now and the end of FY 2011-12.
While that wouldn’t solve all the legislators’ budget problems, passing the package of bills would shift a good share of the hard decision-making from the State Capitol to many a business and household in Colorado. And don’t even ask how it might lead to creating stable, private-sector jobs….
[…] Like the Democrats’ “dirty dozen tax hikes” of 2010 that boosted taxes by a third of a billion dollars? (So much for the notion that TABOR […]