Kim Monson names three TABOR warning signs in local ballot questions
Oct 19, 2026 · 8 min · 8 segments
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Kim MonsonHost
Oct 19, 2026 · 8 min · 8 segments
Kim MonsonHost
Monson said TABOR, which Colorado voters approved in 1992, requires governments to ask voters before they raise taxes, take on debt, or keep revenue above a set limit.
While the ink was hardly even dry before PBIs were trying to figure out a way to get around it, she said, using her term for politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties.
By a newsroom count of the guide's question texts, 142 of them carry at least one of the three signals she described.
The newsroom's full count of the 257 local questions, published October 15th, found that 160 ask for a tax increase, a tax extension, or new debt, and that 138 of those 160 also ask to keep the revenue above Tabor limits.
Earlier coverage of the 2026 Tabor questions is collected under Ballot Measures and Tabor.
Monson said TABOR, which Colorado voters approved in 1992, requires governments to ask voters before they raise taxes, take on debt, or keep revenue above a set limit.
While the ink was hardly even dry before PBIs were trying to figure out a way to get around it, she said, using her term for politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties.
By a newsroom count of the guide's question texts, 142 of them carry at least one of the three signals she described.
The newsroom's full count of the 257 local questions, published October 15th, found that 160 ask for a tax increase, a tax extension, or new debt, and that 138 of those 160 also ask to keep the revenue above Tabor limits.
Earlier coverage of the 2026 Tabor questions is collected under Ballot Measures and Tabor.
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