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Douglas B. Silver of Centennial writes:

I believe that Randy Udall’s Op-ed piece on severance taxes grossly misses the point. There would be far richer returns to Colorado if the multitudes of NGOs were required to pay a severance tax rather than the natural resource sector. Resource companies are finite in number (most left the state more than 20 years ago) while the number of NGOs is apparently infinite and growing. Resource companies pay many different forms of taxes through the products they buy and sell, the people they employ and the current severance taxes uniquely paid by this sector.
NGOs, on the other hand, use all of Colorado services (including oil, gas and minerals), yet they pay no income, severance or any other taxes.
They are well funded as demonstrated by the forests they destroy putting out their propaganda and based on the average demographics of their home cities (Aspen, Boulder, etc..). Unlike the natural resource industry NGOs employ very few people, so taxing even a marginally-run NGO would not result in large layoffs. Finally, while other contributors to Colorado’s quality of living invest in this state, NGOs do not. If they were required to put their money where their mouths are, all of the citizens could actually benefit from listening to their elitist oratory.

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