Overview
- Michigan ballots feature more than 150 local measures across 43 counties, including 49 proposals seeking about $3.6 billion in bonds and roughly $235 million in property tax extensions or increases.
- Colorado voters face nearly 100 local proposals across 30 counties totaling more than $1 billion, including about $1.1 billion in bonds with an estimated $175 million tax impact and additional sales, property, and lodging tax changes.
- Proposition LL in Colorado would maintain current deduction limits for taxpayers earning $300,000 or more and divert an estimated $12.4 million in excess revenue to the Healthy School Meals For All program under TABOR.
- Proposition MM would raise about $95 million annually by increasing state income taxes to fund free school meals, a move backed by Democratic lawmakers and advocacy groups, with Republicans having opposed placing the measures on the ballot.
- NTU reports that nearly 75% of local ballot questions nationwide lack revenue estimates, while states such as Michigan and Colorado provide comparatively more fiscal detail, with about 23% of Colorado’s local measures missing estimates.