Barb's Plan to Make Colorado Affordable | Barbara Kirkmeyer for Colorado

MAKE COLORADO

AFFORDABLE

Colorado has the 9th highest grocery prices, 6th highest median home prices, and 7th highest home insurance rates. The cost of government — propelled by runaway government spending and higher taxes, fees, and regulations on families, small businesses, and products — is crushing Colorado families. These high prices did not happen by accident or fate; they were a policy choice by one-party Democratic lawmakers.

BARB'S PLAN:

1. Lower Insurance by increasing competition, reducing mandates, and reining in lawsuit abuse.

2. Lower Grocery and Home construction costs by repealing onerous regulations and increasing water supply.

3. Create a “Regulatory Bill of Rights” that holds State Agencies accountable for the private sector costs from new regulations.

4. Pursue a “Best of the Above” energy plan that will lower prices and power new jobs. Leverage workers, land and transmission from decommissioned coal plants by co-locating “Best of the Above” sources of energy in the same area. “Best of the Above” means the most cost-effective, substantial and ready-to-go energy solutions for those facilities.

5. Stop the bureaucratic growth in government that’s leading to more taxes and fees. As a leader on the Joint Budget Committee, Barb has called for a 10% across the board personnel cost cut to every state agency, as well as the elimination of many new and ineffective state program.