Colorado House Attempt to Eliminate Tax Credit Actually Eliminates Tax–Guest Post

by Julian Dunraven | 1:49 pm, February 2, 2010

Guest post by Actuary Rich Bratten www.governmentunderground.com Some Political Sausage Gets Thrown to the Floor This is too funny to pass up. It seems that the Majority Party in the Colorado House of Representatives is not even competent enough to raise taxes as they would like. Emboldened by a recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling stating [...]

Economics Applied To Colorado’s Dirty Dozen Tax Increases–Guest Post

by Julian Dunraven | 4:43 pm, February 1, 2010

Guest Post by Actuary Rich Bratten www.governmentunderground.com In the Denver Post on Sunday, January 31, Op-Ed columnist Ed Quillen paints a picture of an imaginary town called Galena. I found his story interesting, but it stopped well short of telling the whole story. As Mr. Quillen’s story goes, the town of Galena has 1,000 households [...]

State of the Union Attack on the Supreme Court Extremely Inappropriate

by Julian Dunraven | 11:13 pm, January 27, 2010

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.Honorable Friends:After watching the State of the Union address tonight, I notice not much has actually changed in a year. Fashion, for instance, remains a foreign concept in Congress. We were back to the standard assemb…

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Corporate Political Spending Ban

by Julian Dunraven | 9:07 am, January 22, 2010

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.Honorable Friends:Do you believe the government should determine what the media can broadcast? Do you believe the government should decide which businesses constitute “media” and which do not? This is exactly what th…

Colorado State University’s Concealed Carry Ban

by Julian Dunraven | 2:55 pm, December 16, 2009

Guest Post by actuary Rich Bratten As an actuary (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, or FSA), I have reviewed quite a number of studies with respect to the issue of concealed carry laws and crime rates. One book that has done an exhaustive study of data down to the county level across the country [...]

Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Illegals’ Privacy Rights—Correctly

by Julian Dunraven | 9:00 am, December 15, 2009

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.Honorable Friends,This evening, two of my honorable friends here at the PPC, Ben DeGrow and El Presidente, have called my attention to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in The People v. Gutierrez, in which a 4-3 ma…

2010 Budget Appropriations: Damn The Recession, Full Spending Ahead

by Julian Dunraven | 1:51 pm, December 14, 2009

[Guest Post submitted by actuary Rich Bratten.  You can follow Mr. Bratten on Twitter under AskTheActuary or visit his page at http://governmentunderground.com] This weekend Congress will vote to approve the final pieces of our country’s discretionary spending budget for fiscal Year 2010. Discretionary spending is all of the spending that Congress “appropriates” each year that [...]

Understand the Financial Crisis: The Lie of Recovery Will Devastate the Unprepared

by Julian Dunraven | 9:00 am, December 8, 2009

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.Honorable Friends:At the People’s Press Collective Reeducation camp this past weekend, I was pleased to see so many people gathered to learn how to become more effective advocates for the cause of restraining governmen…

Child Safety Standards And The Idiocy of ABC

by Julian Dunraven | 9:30 am, November 25, 2009

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A. Honorable Friends:I know better. I really do. In truth, I was simply trying to be polite. Nonetheless, I opened the email from my honorable friend, clicked on the link, and suffered through a clip of ABC’s World News …

GOB United; GOP Undecided

by Julian Dunraven | 10:00 am, November 24, 2009

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.Honorable Friends:I learned from yesterday’s front page headline of The Denver Post that my party now stands united behind former Rep. Scott McInnis in the Colorado gubernatorial race. Odd that. I used to think we had …

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