Tax Study Seeks To Set Agenda For More Taxes
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Once upon a time there was reason to believe that you were safe when the people you elect to represent you weren’t in session. We could be breathing easier today after the Nevada Legislature’s calling it quits late June 1st (or June 2nd if you consider the Senate’s adjournment time).
Actually the next round of impending tax increases has launched with passage of Senate Concurrent Resolution 37. When you look through the language directing the legislative study for increasing taxes you notice that the time-table is intended to have the tracks firmly in place for the express tax train before voters take action in November of 2010. The Interim Finance Committee, the committee of record for this activity, is required to have their final report sent in by October 1, 2010.
Although we’re not too sure how much public engagement will be possible during the subcommittee activities of creating the draft tax package plan – it likely allows for more “transparency” than we had during the 2009 Legislature. To take advantage of this extra time and pre-knowledge, we must be willing and make the commitment to be actively involved during the upcoming interim session.
Perhaps the SCR 37 study will backfire on legislators who believe that they are mandated to raise our taxes so they can spend at ever-increasing rates.
This could serve as an additional tool in evaluating who to support during the 2010 election campaign. Instead of telling us (when they are campaigning) that they don’t think taxes should be increased, as they have done in the past, -- and then doing just the opposite when they get down to work behind the closed doors of the Legislative Building…we now will actually know how vital it is to vote against those who support the defined tax package.
Once upon a time there was reason to believe that you were safe when the people you elect to represent you weren’t in session. We could be breathing easier today after the Nevada Legislature’s calling it quits late June 1st (or June 2nd if you consider the Senate’s adjournment time).
Actually the next round of impending tax increases has launched with passage of Senate Concurrent Resolution 37. When you look through the language directing the legislative study for increasing taxes you notice that the time-table is intended to have the tracks firmly in place for the express tax train before voters take action in November of 2010. The Interim Finance Committee, the committee of record for this activity, is required to have their final report sent in by October 1, 2010.
Although we’re not too sure how much public engagement will be possible during the subcommittee activities of creating the draft tax package plan – it likely allows for more “transparency” than we had during the 2009 Legislature. To take advantage of this extra time and pre-knowledge, we must be willing and make the commitment to be actively involved during the upcoming interim session.
Perhaps the SCR 37 study will backfire on legislators who believe that they are mandated to raise our taxes so they can spend at ever-increasing rates.
This could serve as an additional tool in evaluating who to support during the 2010 election campaign. Instead of telling us (when they are campaigning) that they don’t think taxes should be increased, as they have done in the past, -- and then doing just the opposite when they get down to work behind the closed doors of the Legislative Building…we now will actually know how vital it is to vote against those who support the defined tax package.
Global Warming legislation just came out of committee. World oil production is now in permanent decline. What oil is left will provide us the only bridge we will have to what comes next. I am asking myself, "Why is the Democratic Party making this a TOLL bridge with the passage of this new tax legislation?"
The move to change legislative language from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" confirms Congress's acknowledgement that the planet is now cooling and that the decline in solar activity is responsible for the "Global Cooling" we are now feeling.
Dubious? Google "IPCC Global Warming Potential (GWP)" to find the real story on CO2 as an atmospheric trace gas contributing to warming. Oh, by the way, what Prof. Mann's infamous hockeystick diagram Bristlecone proxy data shows conclusively is that nothing has done more to "GREEN" the planet over the past few decades than moderate sun-driven warming together with elevated levels of CO2, regardless of the source. Increase atmospheric CO2, increase crop and forest production. That's the bottom line.
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