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Coloradans could plug in their own personal numbers to CSI's tax calculator and many saw they were going to pay more, not less.
The Common Sense Institute estimated Prop HH would “result in a personal income loss of $425 per household and cost CO more than 14,000 jobs.”
CSI estimated that Prop HH would result in a personal income loss of $425 per household and cost Colorado over 14,000 jobs.
CSI found that, eventually, TABOR refunds would be reduced more than the reduction of property taxes if HH would have passed on the November ballot.