There are two major party candidates running for governor. Both want to gradually eliminate Colorado’s income tax.
They want the same outcome but by differing means.
So why is it that one candidate is being lampooned for it and no one is talking about the other candidate’s plan at all?
Heidi Ganahl put out a detailed plan to reduce state spending by 10% a year along with half-dozen proposed policy changes to end the income tax.
During a recent candidate’s forum hosted by the CEO confab, Colorado Concern, Ganahl’s plan was labeled as “total bulls—,” not by her opponent, but by the moderator, former Denver Post Publisher Dean Singleton.
I like Dean a lot. He is an old-school newspaper man, a first-class opinionated smartass, and one of the great workaholic men who built Denver. That said, there is a reason smartasses shouldn’t moderate candidate debates.
It’s not that Dean was wrong (he was) it’s that Dean didn’t give Gov. Jared Polis’ plan equal treatment. He didn’t give it any treatment at all.
See the full article by Jon Caldara, October 19, 2022