Dear fellow Coloradans, In honor of the 251st anniversary of the greatest Tea Party that has ever been thrown, I wanted to discuss the nature of the fight against onerous taxation and what can be done to shrug this burden from our shoulders. So I invite my fellow Coloradans to reflect on what fighting for the Taxpayer Bill of Rights means to them. In 1992, the people of Colorado approved an amendment to the constitution that fixed tax revenue at then current levels, tied to inflation and population and created barriers to new taxation. It also entitled Coloradans to refunds of tax revenue beyond the intended scope of that year’s tax revenue. In recent years, Coloradans have been attacked with wave after wave of misinformation and well funded campaigns supporting ballot initiatives that curtail this unique bill of rights. Honest but misinformed citizens, plagued by this propaganda, and thus fearing budget shortfalls and the discontinuity of fully budgeted services like police and firefighters, have been duped into voting away these rights, even in the face of massive inflation, falling real wages, and ever expansive, yet ineffective government programs. So what can be done? We have no harbor to throw tea into, and anyways, such an act of destruction today would probably results in more legal/criminal consequences than any sort of sea change on taxation in the state. And frankly, Celestial Seasonings doesn’t deserve that kind of misplaced energy. It seems to me we have three primary avenues of action. 1. Capture and defend local government positions. City councils and county commissioners are some of the primary culprits in balloting measures that increase taxes and undermine TABOR protections. These offices are critical positions in this fight. 2. Fight new ballot initiatives to raise taxes with everything we have got. A defeated initiative levies no taxes. One critical aspect that is we need to be digging deep into the campaigns that find these initiatives, and identify any nefarious funding sources. Critically, I have noticed in several campaigns, contributions from NGOs who receive government grants pushing for these initiatives. This has got to be called out, exposed, and shamed. Even if their behavior doesn’t violate the letter of the law, it becomes a shell game where they launder fungible government dollars into these campaigns. This needs daylight. 3. Keep up the fight at the state level. Every district rep, every state senate seat, the governor all need to be afraid for their jobs for raising new taxes. Knock on doors. Keep their names and high taxes trending. Write letters to the editor. Email your friends. Buy billboards, fly banners. Do what ever needs to be done to spread the message. It is a long fight. A constant struggle. We will always have to fight off rapacious advances on our wallets and pocketbooks, and we must be constantly vigilant. It is in honor of those brave men who stole aboard those boats and made the world’s largest cup of tea, that I say: it is time to push back! Make Article X, Section 20 great again! #copolitics #tabor

@TRHLofficial @Rothmus Only if it’s delicious. The stringy gamey tasting ones make better pets.

Great adjustment, now do it to the rest of the site. Homeland security is constitutionally delegated to the militia. No act of congress or executive order can change that.

@Obi_Wan_Knievel @catoletters @LeadingReport It’s isn’t a matter of the ability, it is a matter of the will to do so.

@popmetax I think Ron Paul would see his entire job as chairman to be to fire himself after dissolving the bank.

@liberty_lyss @DeTocqueville14 Best answer I have heard.

@DeTocqueville14 Ok we can be friends again. Clearly the best accompaniment to hot wings is a well maintained m1918a2 browning automatic rifle.

@DeTocqueville14 I thought we were going to be friends…

@DeTocqueville14 The wealthy of spirit do not eat salad.

@catoletters @LeadingReport You say that like the executive isn’t possessed of the flex required to force the issue. The one thing about having a monopoly on legal violence is… you have the monopoly on legal violence.

@KaylaQFrawley @MannyRutinel A quarter of a billion dollars to pay for illegal migrant education but sure, it doesn’t take any money away except from taxpayers and school children.

RT @factbearthinks: Single issue spending bills NOW!

There was a distinct change in their behavior during the 2015-2016 campaign. They used to hate cronyism and bailouts and thumbed their nose at the government. Now they do nothing but support those things. It’s preposterous to call it an organization, but amoebic group is more canny. The group was bodysnatched at the end of the Obama admin. The brand has always been juvenile and plagiaristic but the product has clearly changed.

@chigrl Well maybe the first and third day. I can’t be bothered to defend Kansas.

He probably fired them because they sucked at their jobs. These inspector generals were box checking bureaucrats who only served to prop up the administrative state. The DOGE concept is the exact opposite, so much so that it has a chance to work. Instead of tending and caring for bureaucracy, they are pruning it. This is why swamp monsters like 1/3rd Reich over here are so loudly decrying it.

@MacphailTe805 @heidiganahl @Aron_Lam already got one going for Keenesburg. So it’s not an impossible ask. Start asking the question to your rep/senator/commissioner/mayor, etc. Be loud.

@notiovenire @Pathofmostresi1 @FreeStateColor1 How dare you question their pronouns.

@gunpolicy Apparently they had to layoff their passionate writers and one sober editor immediately following the USAID cuts and now this is what we are left with.

I’m no expert but I have often suspected that the quality difference in liquors like bourbon works the same. I have had excellent spirits at $50 a bottle. Maker’s Mark is not so much worse than Pappy as to justify the 10-200x price difference. Exclusivity seems to be the only true delta.

@MikeBenzCyber He just wants to make it a challenge this time I guess. Remember how he was in charge of the congress the whole time Biden was president, apparently?