Despite extensive grandstanding on the issue of affordability at the beginning of this legislative session (and before the November election), liberals in the Colorado legislature balked at the idea of repealing that pesky $0.27 fee you’ve started paying on every delivery from Amazon, Uber Eats, Doordash, and others.
First-term State Representative
Rose Pugliese’s (R-Colorado Springs)
House Bill 23-1166 would have done exactly that. It’s a simple piece of legislation that lifts the financial burden from Coloradans and gives them back about $90 million a year in savings. Last week, the bill was killed on a party-line vote.
While I imagine that Representative Pugliese was expecting this result, she certainly shouldn’t have. Quite frankly, neither should the public. This fee isn’t popular, nor is it a long-standing revenue stream that our services are reliant upon. It’s a recently-implemented (2021) measure that regressively impacts those who are struggling the most within our communities today. I’m sure that Representative Pugliese would have welcomed bipartisan sponsorship and support of her legislation, but it never came.