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Forbes: Tea partiers confused, taxes ‘lower by every measure’ under Obama

Bruce Bartlett, a fiscal conservative and columnist for Forbes who worked in the George W Bush and Reagan administrations is shocked by what he...

This year IRS will be looking at you

Today is the deadline to file federal income taxes, and individuals and businesses are scrambling to get their books in order. The recession continued to batter individuals and families in 2009, with income falling and unemployment rising. But corporate profits started to rebound — nowhere more spectacularly than in the financial sector. Given those fundamentals, one might imagine that the Internal Revenue Service would focus more on corporations than individuals or small businesses.

On tour, Hickenlooper touts practical approach to economic recovery

On Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper's campaign across the state, whether in formal settings with industry leaders or at random meet-and-greets in bars and restaurants, one issue cuts across all voter demographics and comes up again and again: the economy.

Ritter shares out budget pain, lifts business tax exemptions

DENVER-- Gov. Bill Ritter signed nine pieces of controversial legislation into law Wednesday that suspended or eliminated tax breaks for businesses. Ritter is attempting to balance a state budget billions in the red due to recession-era declining tax revenues. The bills he signed Wednesday drew sharp protest from Republican lawmakers who said they were bad for business and recommended additional program cuts on top of the historic cuts already made in the last year. The tax bills will generate $15.6 million in revenue this fiscal year and $132.6 million next fiscal year.

Post reports tax-averse Colorado Springs streets to go dark; comments thread...

The Denver Post today posted a practical look at the recession reality of anti-tax conservative Colorado Springs. City lawmakers working within the shrinking city...

Text of the State of the Union: ‘Let me repeat: we...

The full prepared text of the State of the Union Speech is now online. The president just ad-libbed after recounting the tax cutting his...

Anti-tax movement ponders two big defeats

Election night was bittersweet for Andrew Moylan. The young government affairs manager of the conservative National Taxpayers Union was watching returns in Asheville, N.C., with fellow attendees of the conservative State Policy Network’s annual meeting. Early in the night, the gubernatorial races in Virginia and then New Jersey went to the Republicans. Moylan, however, was watching the returns on two anti-tax, anti-spending ballot measures in Maine and Washington. Those weren’t turning out so well.

“I care a lot less about Republicans than I do about policy,” Moylan said. “So it was depressing to watch those numbers come in.”

Two lumps of bitter with your tea: Anti-Stimulus pile-on at the...

The Denver Post published a factchecking piece on the disparity between the number of jobs reported to have been created so far in the...

The Ken Buck interview: Government is good; too bad it costs...

Colorado politics blogger David Thielen interviewed Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck last week. Buck is one of the GOP frontrunners in the race...

Unabashed agenda promoted in schools by unchecked president

It's a radical political speech loaded with ideology and foisted upon schoolchildren by the president, who is so smooth, the kids surely have no...
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