Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Pain of budget cutting not being shared in Nevada

A tax is a pecuniary burden upon individuals or property owners to support the government. According to this definition, teachers, state and county workers forced to take wage cuts would in the true sense be victims of a tax.

But Gov. Brian Sandoval said “no new taxes. So does “no new taxes” apply only to businesses? I believe the mining taxes will be reviewed, but a member of the governor’s staff said mining taxes will not be increased.

Nevada ranks 49th for lowest amount of taxes paid. Businesses will not come to Nevada when they see our extremely low funding for education. What happened to sharing the pain?

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