If You Want to Save Businesses, Stop Voting for Democrats

While driving there and back the same day wasn’t wise, we had a lovely time during our brief jaunt into Colorado, but you couldn’t pay me to live there. The state is controlled by Democrats, elected by transplants who fled California but failed to leave their crappy politics at the state line, and it shows.

In 2024, Denver took $8.4 million from the police and fire department budgets to pay for illegal immigrants. That came after the city threatened to lay off hourly employees and cut services at the DMV and parks department.

In Aurora, Venezuelan gangs took over apartment buildings and threatened residents. The mayor, governor, and others turned a blind eye to the chaos. A police officer blew the whistle on Aurora, writing to radio host Jesse Kelly, “Unfortunately, these ‘leaders’ are not being truthful nor are they acknowledging the problem as they know it to be. They are also trying to minimize the issue by implying the issue is confined to just the apartment complexes in the city. This could not be further from the truth. The Venezuelans are wreaking havoc throughout the entire city.”

And the state spent a decade harassing Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips, who refused to bake cakes for gay weddings and other Leftist sexual fantasies.

So it’s no surprise to me that 100 companies have left the state and business leaders are now begging for action to stem the hemorrhaging. 

Hundreds of Colorado business leaders call for action as nearly 100 companies leave the state https://t.co/gMkytTJFyf

— CBSColorado (@CBSNewsColorado) April 10, 2026

Here’s more:

Colorado is losing businesses and jobs at an alarming rate.

Now, the ones who’ve stuck around are calling on state leaders to make changes before things get even worse.

The Colorado Chamber of Commerce has been sounding an alarm for years about excessive regulation and, last year, more people moved out of Colorado than into the state.

The chamber says companies are also relocating out-of-state. It released data showing, since 2019, 98 companies have either left the state, expanded elsewhere, or scrapped plans to move here.

That’s resulted in more than 13,000 lost jobs.

Since 2022, Colorado has also had a net loss of 34 public company headquarters. Some of the states seeing gains from Colorado’s losses included Texas, California and North Carolina.

Last I checked, Democrats have majority control of Colorado’s legislature and the Governor, Jared Polis, is a Democrat. They’ve passed legislation to jack up the minimum wage, suppress free speech, and squash gun rights. On March 10, a committee passed what critics are calling the “unholy trinity” of business tax hikes, totaling the eye-watering sum of $580 million. According to business pubication The Sum and Substance, those tax increases were a “reaction to the federal enactment of House Resolution 1, also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” in July. That measure expanded and made permanent a wide range of business-focused tax breaks, reducing Colorado revenues by about $1 billion a year and throwing the state budget out of whack in the process.”

Democrats are also pushing House Bill 1271, which would impose taxes on alcoholic beverages to fund “alcohol-related addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery” programs. Breweries are warning this tax will drive them out of business.

Last August, Democrats increased taxes on businesses, passing four bills that would raise around $330 million a year.

Now, I’m not a politician and I’m not a businesswoman, but I’m smart enough to know that when you make it cost-prohibitive for a business to operate in your state, when you treat them as piggy banks for your own personal benefit, and when you put onerous regulations on top of high taxes, businesses are going to cry “Uncle!” sooner rather than later. Democrats do this repeatedly, to the same results, and the cycle begins anew.

Now, business leaders in Colorado are demanding action to fix this problem.

Might I suggest they start by not electing Democrats?