CO DEMS show anti-business bias

Democrats Gone Wild: Speaker Carroll follows Dem spokesman Jack Pommer down the anti-business rabbit hole. As reported in the Denver Business Journal, House Speaker Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, "Because life under the Dome is sometimes divorced from reality, the business community has always said that no matter what we do, we’re going to lose jobs. I’m just not going to engage in those debates with them because it’s like the boy who cried wolf."

Carroll is divorced from reality. "Accusing the business community of 'crying wolf' over job losses is a huge insult to the hundreds of Amazon affiliates laid off because of the new Internet tax or the thousands of steel workers whose jobs have been put in jeopardy because of the new energy tax," said Sen. Ken Kester, R-Las Animas.

Business owners repeatedly testified before members of the legislature saying that a series of Democrat proposed tax increases would kill jobs. Pepsi officials, for example, told lawmakers a new soda tax will put at risk as many as 800 jobs. A new tax hike on candy will target 150 workers at Grand Junction confectioner Enstrom’s, and the more than $3.3 million the company spends each year with more than 300 Colorado vendors. Democrats ignored the warnings and passed over $300 million of tax increases.

During floor debate about the tax increases, Rep. Jack Pommer, D-Boulder, accused business of not caring about Colorado. Neil Westergaard, editor of the Denver Business Journal, responded by calling Pommer the "most clueless lawmaker" and accused him of being the "torchbearer in a series of attacks on business this year and last." ColoradoSenateNews.com