the “Golden Goose” of Colorado’s economic prosperity originates from a refereed free market system with limited government intervention, property rights, lower taxes, and a stable system of rules, regulations, and laws - ALL of which are actively undermined by the current majority on the Colorado Supreme Court.

The rule of law is perhaps the most important (and least understood) aspect of economic freedom and prosperity. Defense of property rights and stable legal/regulatory conditions are vital to investment and business development (who will willingly invest in the future if that investment can be capriciously confiscated?)

Sure, the amounts are miniscule, relatively speaking. Sure, some of the sales tax exemptions might be considered by some to be “loopholes that were created FOR special interests.”

However miniscule or “special” in impact, however - they ARE (or were, before the Mullarkey Court shredded another section of the Colorado Constitution) protected under TABOR.

Don’t like ‘em? Fine - take it to a vote of the people. Otherwise, don’t change the rules of the game simply because you don’t favor the results.

So Colorado’s golden goose originates from the sale of:

- Candy and soda-pop sales
- Cartons, napkins, condiments, plasticware and other items used to serve food at restaurants Internet purchases at online vendors with in-state affiliates
- Pesticides
- Animal vaccines, hormones, animal drugs, bull semen & other compounds used in agriculture
- Computer software, including online purchases and upgrades
- Energy used in manufacturing

Not only are the amounts minuscule; these sales tax exemptions are loopholes that were created FOR special interests. Why should some industries get breaks and not others? Either get rid of sales taxes all together (and cut all the programs funded by it), or get rid of all exemptions and make it a level playing field.

Besides, of all the TABOR violations this court has seen fit to overlook; eliminating an exemption (a.k.a. a loophole), seems the least egregious.