Vote No on Ballot Issue 1B, donate your own money

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

The Longmont Times-Call published the following article of mine in the print edition last Friday. Voters should oppose Ballot Issue 1B, the "Worthy Cause" tax --no matter how worthy the causes are.  The sales tax for Boulder County non-profits is wrong and should end. It's wrong for the taxpayers forced to ...

Ballot Issue 1B: “Worthy Cause” Tax, It’s Not Your Penny to Give

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

The Daily Camera published my article on the 2008 Boulder County Ballot Issue 1B today. (print version) Update: The so-called "Citizens for a Worthy Cause" that support this are really the very organizations that receive the tax revenue.  See here. Ballot Issue 1B: It's not Your Penny to Give by Brian T. Schwartz Would ...

Government-run auto repair? Yes!

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Today The Daily Camera published the following as a Guest Opinion (good choice of headline!) Here is one-line version, & here's a scan of the print version. Government-run auto repair? Yes! Modeled in health-care debacle, some could clean up By Brian Schwartz Sunday, February 11, 2007 "Government-run health care, that's the model for how to ...