The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

This week marks the beginning of bills hearings at the Colorado legislature and among the bills lawmakers will consider is one dealing with “de-Brucing.”

Currently, 51 out of 64 counties, including the counties in northeastern Colorado, have obtained permission from voters to retain tax revenue paid to the counties when it exceeds revenue limits imposed by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR).

Those permissions for the northeastern counties was granted by voters between 1994 and 2004, with Phillips County the first among those counties to obtain voter approval and Yuma the last, in 2004.

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