{"id":19966,"date":"2019-11-06T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61368"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:19:29","slug":"proposition-cc-effort-to-end-tabor-refunds-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/proposition-cc-effort-to-end-tabor-refunds-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposition CC: Effort to end TABOR refunds fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/04\/ELECTION_RESULTS.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado voters have soundly rejected Proposition CC, dealing a blow to Democratic budget reform efforts and giving the state\u2019s fiscal conservatives a significant victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the definition of a team win,\u201d said Michael Fields, executive director of Colorado Rising Action, which led opposition to Proposition CC. \u201cWe were up against misleading ballot language and millions of dollars of out-of-state money pouring in against us, but thankfully our Taxpayer\u2019s Bill of Rights is preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of midnight Tuesday, there were 574,385 votes in favor of Proposition CC and 716,174 in opposition, an 11-percentage-point difference.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would have let the state keep any tax revenues above the state spending cap \u2014 money that the Taxpayer\u2019s Bill of Rights currently guarantees as refunds to taxpayers. Democrats said it wasn\u2019t a tax increase; Republicans argued it effectively was.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/05\/proposition-cc-tabor-colorado-election-2019\/\">denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/05\/proposition-cc-tabor-colorado-election-2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/proposition-cc-effort-to-end-tabor-refunds-fails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado voters have soundly rejected Proposition CC, dealing a blow to Democratic budget reform efforts and giving the state\u2019s fiscal conservatives a significant victory. \u201cThis is the definition of a team win,\u201d said Michael Fields, executive director of Colorado Rising Action, which led opposition to Proposition CC. \u201cWe were up against misleading ballot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:12:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}