Amendment 60

By PerlStalker
People's Press Collective blog posting

By John Hazlehurst
Colorado Springs Business Journal

May 15th, 2010

Three of the voter initiatives that will appear on the November ballot sure sound attractive.

Among other things, they promise to lower state income taxes, eliminate vehicle-registration fees, require government-owned authorities to start paying property taxes and forbid the state from assuming debt of any kind.

What's not to like?

A lot, it seems.

Sean Maher
For The Daily Camera
May 1, 2020

People are fed up. High taxes and huge debt have even my most liberal friends convinced that something has to be done to control government spending.

So there could not be a better political climate for Taxpayer's Bill of Rights author Doug Bruce and his pals to come up with creative new ways to cripple state and local governments under the guise of controlling taxes and spending.

Amendment 60 would amend the state Constitution to make sweeping changes to Colorado's property tax laws. These changes would significantly impact funding for public schools and local services.

Amendment 60 would require school districts to cut property tax rates in half by 2020.

Local officials worried over November ballot measures
Colorado Proposition 101 and Amendments 60 and 61 would make deep cuts to taxes, with major impacts to Summit County governments

By Julie Sutor
Summit Daily News

By Jack Weinstein
Steamboat Pilot

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Steamboat Springs – Consider this: Revenue for Routt County school districts from specific ownership taxes would dwindle from $1.7 million in 2009 to $22,791 with full implementation of Proposition 101. If you're a registered Colorado voter and plan to cast a ballot in November, you will.

In addition to deciding on Proposition 101, voters will be asked to weigh in on Amendments 60 and 61.

Steamboat Springs – The South Routt School District depends on the state's interest-free loan program.

By Marshall Zelinger
Political reporter
KRDO, Channel 13
Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS – You'll have a chance to vote for reduced car registration fees next year, but at whose expense? Proposition 101 will be on the November 2010 ballot.

By Julia Wilson
Alamosa Valley Courier

ALAMOSA – A Denver think-tank called on the San Luis Valley county commissioners to start grass roots efforts to ask voters to vote against Proposition 101 and Amendments 60 and 61.

The Bell Policy Center is a non-profit group hired by "people opposing these issues." CEO Wade Buchannan and Communications Director Joe Watt presented their case at the SLV County Commissioner meeting Monday morning.