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Published Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 | 2 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 | 8:12 a.m.
CARSON CITY — If some Nevada lawmakers have their way, the sun may never set on the $650 million tax increase that was supposed to be temporary. The tax increase, originally passed in 2009 to help the budget through the worst of the recession, was set to expire or “sunset,” but it has not done so. Now, some legislators are saying some of the increases should be permanent. The Legislature’s tax committees plan to meet at 1 p.m. today to begin that discussion. “Instead of just kicking something down the road two more years, this is the time to make the decision on ...
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Sandoval never saw a tax he didnt like. Sandoval = high taxes and high unemployment.
sure like we didn't know the tax wouldn't end up being permanent. OF COURSE politicians don't want to cut government like they should!!
---how about consolidating clark county firefighters, police, government offices, and eliminating a couple thousand redundant henderson, nlv, and lv, government jobs????
How about REAL contract negotiations with the workers unions, that get real cuts in pay and benefits--like the firefighters!!!!!
How about raising taxes on the mining and casino industries who pay the lowest taxes in nevada than anywhere else in the WORLD, not country--WORLD...they laugh about this in the corporate meetings--what suckers the citizens of nevada are--the mining industry has been BOOMING for ten years now and paid JACK towards the state compared to what they are raping out of this state! Any yet the citizens get screwed paying for the roads and everything else that allow all these multi-national corporations to rape this state year after year---TAX the corporations who are profiting from our resources and stop screwing the little guys at DMV.
FIRST, let's get the SUT working administratively and remove the unauthorized exemptions made by the Nevada Tax Commission. By NEXT biennium we should know if taxing grooming services (hair cuts....) is even needed. All the "installation" labor being untaxed now could make another difference. Sure, no one wants to pay tax on more items but these changes would be much less painful. We should also seriously consider REMOVING the authorization for local governments to increase sales taxes for every "good cause" they can think of. The CCRT (city county relief tax) is already a large portion of SUT and overfunds the cities and counties so much so that they keep paying obscene compensation packages to so many government employees. FIX the city/county budgets BEFORE taxing away our economy.
mr lucky: workers in "private industry" have taken hits to compensation exceeding 10%--those of us still working. Government comp packages need to come down 10% PLUS excessive pay scale reductions for the firefighters, line supervisors, clerical workers--who make 2-4 times what businesses pay.
Whoops, I guess I've been a "bad" boy, so I will try again, in a softer vein. I have no trust when it comes to politicans of any stripe: Republicrat, Dumbocrat, Independentcrat. Inch by inch, they all take from us - money, liberty, honor, dignity, self-reliance - you name it and they will take it. If it moves - they tax it! If it doesn't move, they regulate it! Trying to keep politicans on a leash is harder than herding cats. So, once they impose a tax, forget about it ever being lifted. They will find a way to overspend no matter how much money they filch from taxpayers.