The Colorado oil and gas industry’s employees pay more than $1 Billion in state and local income taxes. That does not include the sales taxes, property taxes and all the other taxes paid by the 90,000 jobs and about $13.5 Billion to Colorado’s domestic product. Including 81% of the school trust. Just think about how much money is related to the oil in gas industry as a secondary market.

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