Over the past few weeks, you have likely seen news warning there will be no TABOR refund in 2025. Democrat leaders blame Washington and H.R.1, but this loss is the result of years of their deliberate decisions to weaken the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, our state’s most important taxpayer protection.

TABOR, passed by voters in 1992, is simple: the government can only grow at a reasonable rate, and any extra revenue must be refunded to taxpayers. In recent years, this has meant refunds of $800 in 2023 and $750 in 2022, plus additional sales tax refunds in many years. These refunds help Colorado families pay bills, buy groceries, and fill their gas tanks, especially during high inflation.

And yet, over and over, Democrat leadership has worked to undermine TABOR. In the last legislative sessio

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