Polis Pitches Tax Cuts, But His Democrat-Run Statehouse Isn't On Board

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Polis and Laffer, whether they realize it or not, are pointing to the growth in state government that followed the suspension of TABOR and claiming it as proof of TABOR's ineffectiveness, when it's really evidence of how important TABOR was to limiting growth in state spending and the overall size of state government.
43% : "If Governor Jared Polis truly wants to turn TABOR into a mechanism for rate reductions, he'll find plenty of bipartisan buy-in," says Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
40% : While Polis and Laffer identify when state government jumped in size, they don't address the why, which is important since the answer to that undermines their argument.
33% : Polis and Laffer note that this increase in the size of state government, which they cite as proof of TABOR's ineffectiveness, came about during and after the tenure of former Colorado Governor Bill Owens (R).

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