Technique: wrong mechanism, stated as fact
"Both measures are permanent and indexed to CPI inflation, meaning this isn't a one-time ask: the bill grows every year, for as long as the overrides are in effect." — notyetjeffco.org, captured September 27, 2026. The hero likewise calls 5A and 5B "two permanent, inflation-indexed property tax increases."
Half of this checks out. "Permanent" is accurate: neither measure carries a sunset. And 5B, the special capital mill under Colorado's Debt Free Schools Act, is indexed: the district's own description says its revenue may be increased annually for inflation based on changes in the Consumer Price Index.
But 5A is not CPI-indexed. Its ballot language raises taxes "$73 million in 2026" and "by such amounts in subsequent years that will produce, when combined with prior mill levy override amounts, up to the limit established for the district by Section 22-54-108(3)(b)(VI), C.R.S." That is the statutory override ceiling set by Colorado's school finance law — a moving limit tied to the state's funding formula, not to the consumer price index — and 5A can step up toward it in later years without another vote.
Note what this error is and isn't. It does not inflate the site's case: a levy that grows toward a statutory ceiling on its own is, if anything, a less predictable commitment than a CPI escalator, and the site's basic point — both measures grow and neither ends — stands. But a site whose whole premise is that voters should read the fine print before saying yes has misstated the fine print of one of the two measures it opposes.