Colorado Proposition II (STATUTORY) (2023)
YES / FOR. I am voting for Prop II which extends an existing policy to ensure a current tax on cigarettes goes to schools instead of going back to cigarette distributors.
Without raising taxes, may the state retain and spend revenues from taxes on cigarettes, tobacco, and other nicotine products and maintain tax rates on cigarettes, tobacco, and other nicotine products and use these revenues to invest twenty-three million six hundred fifty thousand dollars to enhance the voluntary Colorado preschool program and make it widely available for free instead of reducing these tax rates and refunding revenues to cigarette wholesalers, tobacco product distributors, nicotine products distributors, and other taxpayers, for exceeding an estimate included in the ballot information booklet for proposition EE?
YES / FOR. I am voting for Prop II which extends an existing policy to ensure a current tax on cigarettes goes to schools instead of going back to cigarette distributors. For more information about Prop EE in 2020 which established this tax on cigarettes, read what I had to say in favor of that 2020 measure Prop EE: https://ericmbudd.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/how-im-voting-in-the-2020-boulder-colorado-elections/
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I think the value proposition for Prop II is pretty simple. From the Colorado Blue Book:
Here are details from the Colorado Blue Book on cigarettes, tobacco, and nicotine products more generally:
Additional Reporting, Commentary, and Sources
Colorado Proposition II, Tobacco and Nicotine Product Tax Revenue Measure (2023) – Ballotpedia