CUT Engaged
Welcome to CUT Engaged
CUT Engaged is a new initiative by the Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) designed to empower Colorado citizens to take direct action on legislation that impacts them. Through CUT Engaged, taxpayers can easily send messages to the sponsors of selected bills, urging them to support or oppose policies based on CUT’s pro-taxpayer stance.
How CUT Engaged Works
- Stay Informed – CUT reviews key legislation and explains each bill’s impact on taxpayers.
- Take Action – Each CUT Engaged post features a personalized form that allows you to email the bill sponsors directly.
- Make Your Voice Heard – You can send CUT’s recommended message or personalize your email to include your own perspective.
- Amplify Your Impact – You can add your state senator and representative to ensure they also hear your stance.
- Legislators Get the Message – Your email is sent directly to the lawmakers responsible for the bill, with Kim Monson, President of CUT, as the reply-to contact for any legislative responses. This ensures CUT has full visibility of the communication and minimizes potential abuse of the system by bad actors.
Why CUT is Providing This to Colorado Taxpayers
For nearly 50 years, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) has been the state’s leading advocate for fiscal responsibility, transparency, and taxpayer rights. CUT Engaged is an extension of this mission, making it easier than ever for Colorado citizens to have a voice in the legislative process.
Many bills pass without real public input. Lawmakers need to hear from the people who will be affected most—you, the taxpayer. CUT Engaged removes the barriers to participation, ensuring that Colorado’s taxpaying citizens can quickly and effectively communicate with legislators before critical votes take place.
Stay informed. Take action. Protect Colorado taxpayers.
CUT Engaged Opposed Bills
CUT Opposes HB25B-1006, Improve Affordability Private Health Insurance
This legislation appears to be a scheme to rob the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund. It is irresponsible to borrow $100M to cover today’s bills and
CUT Opposes HB25B-1005, Eliminate State Sales Tax Vendor Fee
This bill eliminates the small credit to vendors for their work in collecting and remitting sales tax on behalf of the state. This legislation would
CUT Opposes HB25B-1004, Sale of Tax Credits
A $100 million windfall this year for prepaid taxation obligations, followed by a net loss of $75 million next year, is a shell game which
CUT Opposes HB25B-1003. Insurance Premium Tax Rate for Home Offices
$45 million increasing to $91 million next year in new revenue is a tax increase, a violation of TABOR (Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights), and
CUT Opposes HB25B-1002, Corporate Income Tax Foreign Jurisdictions
$35.6 million (increasing to $72 million next year) of new revenue is a tax increase, a violation of TABOR, and requires a vote of the
CUT Opposes HB25B-1001, Qualified Business Income Deduction Add-Back
This bill would require business owners to give back a portion or all of their qualified deduction resulting from the federal Qualified Business Income Deduction
CUT Opposes SB25B-004, Increase Transparency for Algorithmic Systems
This bill increases spending rather than decreasing spending to the tune of 49 new FTE (Full Time Employees) and $70M per year. The AI process
CUT Opposes SB25B-003, Healthy School Meals For All
This legislation creates more citizen dependance on the state. Beware! What the state giveth, the state can taketh away. We must reclaim the rugged individual
CUT Opposes SB25B-002, State-Only Funding for Certain Entities
This bill irresponsibly increases spending when Colorado is in a nearly $1B budget shortfall. This legislation uses taxpayer’s money to subsidize abortion providers and providers
CUT Opposes SB25B-001, Processes to Reduce Spending During Shortfall
While there are similarities to HB25B-1016, we are concerned that this bill is a violation of “The Separation of Powers” as it passes ‘the power
CUT Opposes HB25-1274, Healthy School Meals for All Program
Bill puts before voters in November, 2 separate ballot issues to pay for free breakfast and lunch for EVERY student. No Fiscal Note to tell
CUT Opposes HB25-1169, Housing Developments on Faith and Educational Land
This bill inserts the state into matters of local government. Local governments are closer and more accountable to their constituents than the state and more
CUT Opposes HB25-1061, Community Schoolyards Grant Program
Taxes on oil, natural gas, and the coal industries have generated millions of $$$ for education. The grant funding requests in this bill are the
CUT Opposes HB25-1001, Enforcement Wage Hour Laws
The Leeds School of Business at CU recently reported that Colorado’s economic growth has moved from 5th to 41st in the nation because of excessive
CUT Opposes SB25-286, Petroleum Products Fees & Penalties
This bill would levy another fee and more penalties on petroleum products. These fees and penalties get passed on to the consumer. Instead of the
CUT Opposes SB25-270, Enterprise Nursing Facility Provider Fees
This bill moves revenue from TABOR calculations into an Enterprise, which is exempt from TABOR calculations. The expected result is $66 Million moved from taxpayer
CUT Opposes SB25-055, Youth Involvement in Environmental Justice
Decisions as to the manner as this is done ought to be made by informed persons making rational decisions that are in the interest of
CUT Opposes HB25-1321, Support Against Adverse Federal Action
CUT members unanimously oppose this bill. The bill appropriates $4 million from the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” cash fund to the office of the
CUT Opposes SB25-257, Modify General Fund Transfers to State Highway Fund
This bill modifies the schedule and amount of annual transfers from the General Fund to the State Highway Fund, substantially reducing highway funding over the
CUT Opposes HB25-1215, Redistribution of Lottery Fund
CUT members unanimously oppose this bill. The bill adjusts the distribution of money in the state lottery fund, beginning in FY 2024-25. When the lottery
CUT Opposes HB25-1312, Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals
The CUT Board was unanimous in opposition. This special interest bill is so egregious that the safety clause is attached to it to prevent the
CUT Opposes HJR25-1023, Require General Assembly TABOR Constitutionality Lawsuit
Unanimous opposition by the CUT board on this resolution. This resolution claims that TABOR prevents Colorado from being a republican form of government. We could
CUT Opposes SB25-077, Modifications to Colorado Open Records Act
The bill makes it longer to get requested docs for regular citizens and gives preferential treatment for paid journalists and reporters. We need true CORA
CUT Opposes SB25-006, Investment Authority of State Treasurer for Affordable Housing
Subsidized housing is economic redistribution and communist collectivism in nature. Government doesn’t belong in the private enterprise housing market. Lending money at below market rates
CUT Opposes HB25-1297, Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise Update
We will start with the Safety Clause. No public safety is involved. None. Then there is the Gifts, Grants, Donations Clause, which can become a
CUT Opposes HB25-1244, Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program
This bill seeks to expand an existing program which awards money to NGOs for assisting migrants with language training, job searches, and navigation of the
CUT Opposes HB25-1269, Building Decarbonization Measures
The bill begins with the dubious premise that climate crisis is ‘settled science’, and from there seeks to mandate onerous reductions in energy use by
CUT Opposes SB25-37, Coal Transition Grants
CUT opposes this bill. The taxpayers cannot afford to compensate for the loss of businesses that the state destroyed. The proper remedy is to undo
CUT Opposes HB25-1211, Tap Fees Special District
CUT opposes this bill. The bill limits tap fees charged by the board of a sanitation district, water and sanitation district, or water district. This
CUT Engaged Supported Bills
CUT Supports SB25B-005, Reallocate Department of Natural Resources Wolf Funding to Health Insurance Enterprise
This bill does not address the overspending problem at the state legislature. However, in the wolf introduction program the taxpayers pay for wolves to be
