A Clearer Picture: Colorado’s Property Tax Debate
Four approaches to housing affordability and property taxes are headed to your ballot. How do they work and which approach is best for Colorado?
A Smarter Way to Sustain Colorado’s Revenue Needs
The sound rejection of recklessly written tax cut initiatives in Colorado and in Denver should mark the beginning of a smarter conversation about how to fund our communities.
Missing from Fiscal Reform & the Ballot: Tax Fairness
For the Bell Policy Center, our commitment to tax fairness isn’t just a political innovation -- it's a recognition of the degrading effects economic stratification and inequality have had on our communities.
From Our President: The Bell & Race
As an organization, we have some work to do and questions to ask ourselves when it comes to bringing urgency and greater community engagement to our equity work.
New Priorities for a New Normal
As we get ready for the resumption of Colorado's legislative session, the Bell Policy Center has reorganized its public policy priorities for the challenges of a new normal.
Colorado Tax Policy: Is This the Year We Get it Right?
Like a stunned Bill Murray marooned in Punxsutawney, Colorado wakes up each year condemned to solve an elusive financial puzzle.
Bell President Reflects on 2018 Legislative Session
While we and our many partners advocated for practical proposals to help struggling Coloradans, a slew of great ideas met their end in the Senate’s State Affairs committee in the 2018 legislative session.
Forget “Middle Class” — $63,000 for a Denver Family to Just Subsist
In 2018, we will more deeply analyze how we rebuild a diverse and thriving middle class. In a recent Denver Post op-ed, Bell President Scott Wasserman discusses why we think this is such an important mission.
Tax Bill Mismatched to Our Economic Needs
Will Colorado stick with the same ideology that spawned the GOP tax plan, or will we finally decide to pursue progressive tax policies that ensure economic mobility for every Coloradan?
About That “Taxman” Podcast…
"The Taxman" podcast by CPR is a Rorschach test: For those who know about TABOR’s perils, it affirms their opposition, and to those who support it, the piece serves to strengthen their view of anti-tax activists.
