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Nevada Taxpayers should have the Last Word on Largest Tax Hike in history

Nevada Taxpayers should have the Last Word on Largest Tax Hike in history
Chuck Muth
August 13, 2015

Chuck Muth(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – In 2009, the Nevada Legislature passed a series of “temporary” tax hikes totaling in excess of $600 million.  The people of Nevada were promised that those tax hikes would expire, “sunset,” in two years. Instead, the Legislature extended those tax hikes for an additional two years in both 2011 and 2013.

In 2014, the teachers union put a new gross receipts tax on the ballot.  Gov. Brian Sandoval and every Republican legislative candidate campaigned aggressively against it.  And almost 80 percent of voters rejected it on Election Day.

But, during the recently concluded legislative session, Sandoval and the Republican-controlled Legislature said they didn’t care what the people were promised about the “sunsets” or what the people declared loudly and clearly about the gross receipts tax last November.

They…knew…better.

As such, they concocted the largest tax increase in Nevada’s history (SB483) – over $1 billion! – including making permanent those “temporary” tax hikes from 2009 and a new gross receipts tax very similar to the one overwhelmingly rejected by voters just last November.

In response, more than 800 Nevada citizens have filed a referendum to put the $1 billion-plus tax hike on the 2016 ballot for a possible veto by the people of Nevada.  The “We Decide Coalition” will now need to overcome the inevitable court challenges and gather roughly 55,000 signatures to qualify it for the ballot by next June.

Gov. Sandoval greeted the filing of the referendum with sound and fury.  How dare you?!!  Don’t you know these tax hikes are for the children?  Don’t you know that over 70 percent of legislators voted for this giga-tax hike?

Yeah, um, about that.

The total number of legislators who voted for the largest tax hike in Nevada history, including the news gross receipts tax = 48.

The total number of Nevadans who voted against the gross receipts tax last November = 429,324!!

So taxpayers are supposed to suck it up and accept a billion dollar tax hike because 48 bought-and-paid-for legislators and the governor think they know better than 429,324 voters?  I don’t think so.

In his fit of pique, issued in a written statement so that no one could question him, Sandoval demanded to know what those seeking the tax hike repeal would cut from the budget.

This is a tired, old liberal tactic that won’t work in this case because State Controller Ron Knecht and a number of conservative lawmakers proposed budget alternatives during the session that would have completely funded the budget without raising a dime in taxes.  But Sandoval refused to give those alternatives even token consideration.

It’s time for these elected elites to stop using Nevadans as ATM machines.  And if this referendum makes it to the ballot, we, the people, will have the final word.  As we should.

 

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach and the publisher of www.NevadaNewsandViews.com.  He personally blogs at www.MuthsTruths.com.

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August 13, 2015
Chuck Muth

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