🚨 THE COLORADO SHELL GAME: THE "FREE" TRAIN SHAM 🚨 Don’t be fooled by the flashy headlines! Governor Polis is out here touting a "no-cost" rail deal, but once you peel back the PR, it’s the same old Democratic playbook: Steal, divert, and spend. 🚂 The "No-Cost" Lie Polis claims the new Front Range Passenger Rail won't cost us a dime in new taxes. TRUTH: They are already raiding your pockets! The project relies on millions from "fees" (you know, those things Democrats call taxes when they want to bypass your TABOR rights). They are using your vehicle rental fees and "savings" to fund a niche train while our actual roads crumble. 💸 Stealing Your TABOR Refunds Colorado Democrats have become masters of the "Fee Frenzy." By labeling every new tax a "fee," they keep your hard-earned money instead of returning it to you as required by TABOR. This rail project is just the latest excuse to pile on financial liabilities for a service that will likely require massive taxpayer subsidies forever. 🛑 The Panic Over Initiative 175 Why is the administration panicking? Because Initiative 175 would finally force the state to spend transportation money on—wait for it—ROADS AND BRIDGES. Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to keep their hands on that money so they can blow it on vanity rail projects instead of fixing the potholes you hit every single day. THE BOTTOM LINE:They are stealing our refunds, adding fees left and right, and now piling on debt for a "Connector" that most Coloradans will never use. It’s time to stop the shell game. Fix our roads, respect our TABOR refunds, and stop the "no-cost" rail sham! 🏔️🚫🚆 #ColoradoPolitics #TABOR #NoNewTaxes #FixOurRoads #FrontRangeRail #ColoradoTaxpayers #PolisPayback denvergazette.com/2026/04/30/gov…

Colorado's rash and reactionary leaders (predictably) are decrying the Trump admin's repeal of the Obama-era "endangerment finding," because it potentially overturns the "green energy" apple cart here in Colorado. But Colorado motorists and taxpayers should be applauding Trump's move. And here's why: @GovofCO Polis and the Dem supermajority love to brag: “Colorado now has over 210,000 electric vehicles on the road!”  They say it's proof we’re “leading the nation” by copying California’s radical clean-car mandates. But here’s the cold, hard reality they never mention. Colorado has 5.54 million registered light-duty vehicles — the cars, trucks, and SUVs that families, farmers, and small businesses actually drive every day. Those 210,000 EVs are less than 4% of the fleet.  96% of us are still using gasoline or diesel. After a decade of mandates, subsidies, and chest-thumping, we’ve moved the needle by almost nothing. And what has this cost you, the taxpayer? Hundreds of millions in direct state subsidies. The Innovative Motor Vehicle Tax Credit alone has burned through an estimated $600–850 million in forgone revenue. And that doesn't count the fund squandered via Vehicle Exchange Colorado, our “cash-for-clunkers” rebates, which have now been jacked up to $9,000 per buyer for income-qualified folks. That’s your money, Coloradans, transferred to people who could already afford a new car, all to artificially juice a market that refuses to grow on its own without market-distorting subsidies and mandates. Now the worst part: It hasn’t worked. Colorado just released its 2025 Greenhouse Gas Inventory. And we're not meeting our targets, despite billion$ in misinvestments. We were supposed to cut total emissions 26% below 2005 levels last year, but we only managed about 21%. And transportation, the largest single source, is the main reason we fell short. Emissions rebounded after the pandemic dip. Vehicle miles traveled keep rising. The modest gains from early EVs and efficiency have been swamped by more driving and a fleet that is still 96% fossil-fueled. The 210,000 EVs we do have save roughly 2–3% of the transportation sector’s total. Globally? Energy-related CO₂ hit 37.8–38 billion metric tons last year. Colorado’s entire transportation sector is ~0.08% of that. Even if we magically electrified every vehicle tomorrow and wiped out all 29 million tons of transport emissions, it would reduce global CO₂ by less than one-tenth of one percent — a rounding error. Yet Polis and the legislature doubled down: mandating 35% zero-emission sales by 2027, 82% by 2032. While the Trump administration repealed the federal Endangerment Finding and most of the country celebrates cheaper, practical vehicles, Colorado is suing, along with a dozen other members of the California "clean car" cartel, for the alleged right to impose stricter-than-federal standards. Legal experts give the cartel almost zero chance of winning. This isn’t leadership. It’s ideological extremism that has made Colorado a California-like outlier among states. It’s forcing higher new car prices on working families and rural drivers who need trucks that actually work in the mountains. It’s keeping older, dirtier gas cars on the road longer because people can’t afford the mandates. It’s also placing additional strain on the shaky green grid. Polis, the legislature, and the green lobby have put Colorado in a ridiculous, position: they are exploiting and abusing taxpayers and distorting our auto market, while missing unrealistic emissions goals and achieving nothing measurable in a global context. Enough. End California copycat mandates. Drop the doomed lawsuits. Stop forcing families to subsidize a fantasy. Colorado deserves leaders who put real results over green virtue-signaling. Share this if you’re tired of the green energy grift. #copolitics #coleg @epaleezeldin @EPA #ColoradoEVFail

Colorado Democrats want you to believe they’re victims of the Big Bad Federal Budget Bill. That the state’s $1.2 billion shortfall just… happened. Like a pothole after a snowstorm. Nothing to do with how they’ve governed. rockymountainvoice.com/2025/07/31/the…

As a cop I relied on overtime, just like so many hardworking families do. @GovofCO’s move to tax overtime pay is a slap in the face to Coloradans putting in the extra hours to get ahead.