After years of trying to kill TABOR, the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, that was installed in the Colorado Constitution some 30 years ago, Democrats now are fully on board with it. In fact, they're bragging about it.

They like it so much that they're now using the money that the state constitution requires to be refunded to taxpayers, critics say, to try to influence the 2022 elections, dispatching the checks for $750 per individual or $1,500 for joint filers weeks ahead of the November vote.

While multiple states are sending checks out to voters as the 2022 vote approaches, most of those programs are, in fact, the option of those controlling state spending.

In Colorado, voters approved TABOR in 1992 to require the state to refund to taxpayers any revenue collected that exceeds the rate of inflation and the rate of growth in the state.

The Denver Gazette reports that while Democrats for years have tried to undermine and defeat – even remove – the TABOR provisions, Democrat Gov. Jared Polis and Democrats now are touting the "tax refund."

The report explains how Republicans in the state are charging the Democrat majority with "an election-year stunt."

"Don't be fooled when your TABOR refund check hits your mailbox later this month," Michael Fields of Advance Colorado told the publication. "Remember liberal legislators tried to take them away in 2019. Gov. Polis and Democratic lawmakers want you to think it's some kind of gift from them. But really, this is just an election-year gimmick to try to get your vote."