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Standing Alone, Standing Tall: Dickman the Only Principled Vote Against Tax Extension
(Chuck Muth) – In a vote today on the “more cops” tax extension bill, only one lawmaker stood firm and voted “No.”
Not because Assemblywoman Jill Dickman (R-Washoe) is against police. Far from it.
In fact, she’s one of the strongest backers of law enforcement in the entire statehouse.
But when it came to Senate Bill 451 (SB451), she believed something even more important was at stake: the right of the people to decide on taxes they would have to pay and were promised would expire.
SB451 creates a new a property tax hike in Clark County to replace the one that was originally approved by voters back in 1996. That tax hike – 20 cents on every $100 of property value – was supposed to sunset in July 2027.
That’s what voters agreed to nearly 30 years ago. And that’s what existing law says. NRS 354.5982 is crystal clear:
“The duration of the levy must not exceed 30 years. The governing body…may not thereafter reimpose it in whole or in part without following the procedure required for its original imposition.”
But now, under this new law designed to circumvent existing law, the tax will be raised again by state legislators without going back to the voters of Clark County and Las Vegas.
So instead of ending in 2027 as promised and otherwise mandated by law, it’ll keep going until 2057.
That didn’t sit right with Dickman.
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