Remembering Spending And Tax Increases As We Prepare For 2010 Election
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
As campaign organizational ground work is laid, candidates surfaced and circulated to begin meeting voters and strategy polished for making necessary changes in the make up of the 2011 Nevada Legislature – we need to be sure to remember that the reason for pressing for change is the unwillingness of those who were involved in the 2009 session to halt the growth of state spending and then had to follow-up with about a Billion dollars of increases in various tax increases.
Throughout the 2009 session we were told that reductions in “essential services” were not an option and without getting really very specific there wasn’t much that wasn’t “essential”. The contention was that the real problem was there wasn’t enough taxing going on.
As our neighbor to the West struggles to deal with their inability to constrain spending and tax increases, it serves as great reminder for how those in the majority of our legislative bodies would have liked to have done more to extract resources from our taxpayers too. Feeding their insatiable appetite for more government and unlimited resources will only be prevented by having enough votes (probably in the Assembly) to keep tax increase proposals from having the necessary 2/3 majority to gain passage.
In spite of the civics lesson which spending and taxation champions would like to promote as the “responsibility” we have to meet in funding the obligations they determine (with automatic increases a non-debatable given) – its critical to enter the voting booth in 2010 with those in mind who put government’s ability to expand above the needs of hard-pressed private sector concerns.
As campaign organizational ground work is laid, candidates surfaced and circulated to begin meeting voters and strategy polished for making necessary changes in the make up of the 2011 Nevada Legislature – we need to be sure to remember that the reason for pressing for change is the unwillingness of those who were involved in the 2009 session to halt the growth of state spending and then had to follow-up with about a Billion dollars of increases in various tax increases.
Throughout the 2009 session we were told that reductions in “essential services” were not an option and without getting really very specific there wasn’t much that wasn’t “essential”. The contention was that the real problem was there wasn’t enough taxing going on.
As our neighbor to the West struggles to deal with their inability to constrain spending and tax increases, it serves as great reminder for how those in the majority of our legislative bodies would have liked to have done more to extract resources from our taxpayers too. Feeding their insatiable appetite for more government and unlimited resources will only be prevented by having enough votes (probably in the Assembly) to keep tax increase proposals from having the necessary 2/3 majority to gain passage.
In spite of the civics lesson which spending and taxation champions would like to promote as the “responsibility” we have to meet in funding the obligations they determine (with automatic increases a non-debatable given) – its critical to enter the voting booth in 2010 with those in mind who put government’s ability to expand above the needs of hard-pressed private sector concerns.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 7/12/2009 4:05 AM 
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Nevada Taxes Elec tion
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Nevada Taxes Elec tion
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