Letter: Seniors should get tax relief
Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004 | 9:09 a.m.
The state of Nevada should not wait any longer to provide senior citizens living here with some sort of property tax relief.
Senior citizens have been paying their due share all these years. The groups' burden on state and county resources is comparatively much less, especially with regard to the usage of facilities such as schools, parks, highways, police, etc.
On the other hand, their financial base is constantly being stretched to a breaking point. Obviously, as they age, they are also paying their ever increasing medical expenses. Lately, additional energy costs (electricity, natural gas, and gasoline) and now the pending property tax hike may finally choke their residency in this otherwise beautiful state.
I sincerely hope our state and local authorities will take some immediate steps to freeze property taxes for senior citizens at a certain level when they reach a certain age. In the absence of such a freeze, the state will be discouraging the new arrival of senior citizens and even be driving some of the current ones out of the state.
TEJPAL S. GILL
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