New state law limiting how much counties can extract directly from citizens prompts counties to brainstorm how to indirectly extract more cash.
It’s always about how to get more in taxes and fees and never about cutting the fat out of bureaucracy and waste. Now they’re trying to “creatively” tax economic drivers. Most of Colorado is driven by tourism, so they’re looking at ways to tax tourists. Daily ski passes exceed $250, but hey, let’s add an additional tax or fee onto that ticket since we can’t gouge property owners as much as we had been.
Lodging taxes now go to funding daycare, they used to go to marketing our county, to bring in more tourists. Sales tax is already ridiculously high, tourists are complaining about the high taxes already, now let’s add more on top, but we’re not going to fix roads so that the tourists can get here safely, gotta provide housing and daycare to the illegals and their anchor babies instead.
The problem is the “reasonable” part. For them it’s reasonable to tax you to death so that they can grift millions off the backs of taxpayers.
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