Tracking what's destroying Colorado
A curated collection of bills, news, and resources about Colorado politics and policy
A curated collection of bills, news, and resources about Colorado politics and policy
Approved by Colorado voters on November 4, 2025, with 57% support (vs. 43% opposition) when 57% of ballots were counted, Proposition MM imposes a targeted tax hike on households earning $300,000+ in federal adjusted gross income by capping their state income tax deductions, projected to raise ~$100-150 million annually to fully fund universal free breakfast and lunch for all public school students (expanding the 2022 Prop FF program), boost pay for school meal staff, prioritize local food sourcing, and cover new state costs (~$50M/year) for administering federal SNAP/food stamps amid stricter Trump-era work requirements. Affecting ~6% of tax filers (average extra $327 for singles, $574 for joint filers), the measure—referred by Democrats after inflation eroded prior funding—passed without organized opposition, backed by a $740K campaign from nonprofits like Hunger Free Colorado, billionaire Pat Stryker, and the Rose Community Foundation; it passed alongside Prop LL (local food bonds), ensuring no rollbacks to means-tested meals starting 2026, though critics decry it as another self-inflicted burden on high earners amid TABOR constraints.
Classic Democrat sleight-of-hand—they dress up a straight-up tax on productive Coloradans making $300K+ as "for the kids' lunches," but it's just another guilt-trippy raid on the job creators footing the bill for endless government handouts, now ballooned to $150M/year because inflation (which they printed into existence) and "popularity" excuses mean-tested welfare into universal freebies. No organized opposition? That's because they stacked the deck with billionaire Stryker's cash flooding ads guilting voters into "saving school meals" while ignoring how this caps deductions for families already crushed by housing, energy, and Polis's green mandates—news flash: kids won't starve without state-subsidized PB&Js, parents can pack a sandwich, and real solutions mean cutting admin bloat, not mugging high earners to fund SNAP admin for able-bodied adults dodging Trump's smart work rules. This "self-tax" BS fools no one—it's welfare state expansion disguised as compassion, eroding TABOR one emotional prop at a time, turning Colorado into a blue-state beggar where success gets punished and voters get played like chumps. Absolute grift—if Dems cared about kids, they'd fix failing schools instead of buying votes with other people's money.