The SDA Board of Directors has taken a position opposing Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101 at the November 2009 Board meeting. They have authorized the SDA staff to work in concert with other associations who are working to inform their members on the impact these amendments could have on local governments in Colorado.

According to the opposing campaign, these measures will collapse Colorado’s economy.

The campaign reports that Amendment 61 shuts down Colorado’s ability to build or expand its schools, roads, hospitals, college buildings, light rail, water and sewer systems, prisons—any of its capital infrastructure—blacklisting Colorado on the list of 50 states for where companies locate jobs, business centers and capital investment. Instead of attracting investment, Colorado will be an investment-flight state. Once companies bypass Colorado with jobs and capital investment, the tax burden becomes too high and Colorado’s existing companies begin to leave to more competitive states, ensuring a California-style problem of high taxes and a stagnant economy. This is no time to be setting out on some crazy experiment. Other conservative states are not doing these types of things. Instead, Texas, Utah and Arizona—Colorado’s biggest competitors for jobs and capital investment—are going to raid the most essential and productive parts of our state’s economy if we approve these radical anti-business measures www.donthurtcolorado.com.