During his opening statements on the Senate floor today, Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, referred to the Democrats’ proposed tax hikes as just that: tax hikes.
“If it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and walks like a duck, it is probably a duck,” said Sen. Mark Scheffel, R-Douglas County. “It’s time for Democrats to start speaking directly and honestly about these tax increases.”
Democrats have been trying to spin their $335 million of tax increases by calling them “corporate loopholes” or “tax breaks.” Suggesting that, perhaps, these taxes should have existed all along.
But Heath’s slip up reinforces the fact that these tax increases are going to raise the cost of doing business in Colorado and the price of many consumer goods.
Click here to listen to Sen. Heath’s statement.