This Colorado Ballot Measure Would Create a Graduated Income Tax

Column: Guillot | Colorado has been good to me; I’m asking voters to raise my taxes

My name is Ron Guillot, and I am a Colorado millionaire. It is awkward to say in print, but it is why I am writing. I would like to ask voters to raise my taxes by voting yes on Amendment 87. Colorado has a flat 4.4% income tax rate. A retiree on a fixed income, a teacher or police officer, a professional making $200,000 per year, and people like me earning well over $1 million a year all pay that same rate. A flat rate sounds fair, until you lo…

Amendment 87 asks voters to remake tax code, raise tax rates on the very highest-earning Coloradans

What is Amendment 87? Colorado voters could make a major change to state income taxes in November if they pass the proposal to create a graduated income tax system and raise tax rates on high earners.

Polis Pushes Conservative Group’s Anti-Tax Argument

Recently a on local political podcast, Colorado Governor Jared Polis attacked Amendment 87, the graduated income tax proposal that would cut taxes for nearly all Coloradans while only raising taxes for the very few who make over a half million dollars a year. 

Amendment 87: A graduated income tax would raise taxes on Colorado’s highest earners

Amendment 87 would raise an estimated $2 billion a year for public services, while cutting taxes for individuals and businesses that make less than $500,000 a year

This Colorado ballot measure would create a graduated income tax

Polis Peddles Nonsense With Amendment 87 Opposition

Opponents of Amendment 87, the graduated income tax measure that would cut taxes for 97% of Coloradans, are pulling out the big guns and the big bullshit in their efforts to protect rich people from paying more in taxes. And it’s not working. You know things are going bad when “Even Shaun Boyd” of CBS4 […]