Nevada’s Non-preordained Preordained Tax Increase Study
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Growing Nevada government and finding new pockets and ways to extract revenue from private sources is the purpose for the interim tax study that Nevada Legislators are getting ready to launch. As reported by the new news service, Nevada News Bureau, they are down to the final four in the selection process for who gets the prize to search for new tax ideas that the 2011 Nevada Legislature can tap.
In spite of the impression we’re supposed to be buying that this isn’t a preordained outcome for tax increases – I hope that we’re not required to keep straight faces while we’re being told it’s not a preordained conclusion. When the final outcome is achieved and the package is completed, including the “vision” for all the wonderful things the selected stakeholders deem necessary for the Utopia that Nevada can become with more governmental support, we won’t have to pretend that we’re surprised that the $500,000 spent for the study came up with tax increases.
We agree with Steve Miller, vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute when he observed -- “It’s the same old story,” he said. “The politicians spend every cent in sight. Then they try to fool the voters with a study that is never designed to get spending under control but to find new revenue.”
Until the preordained outcome of legislators voting for tax increases is the un-election of those legislators, we’re going to continue to see Nevada legislators believing that government is more important than those who have to pick up the bill to pay for government spending.
Growing Nevada government and finding new pockets and ways to extract revenue from private sources is the purpose for the interim tax study that Nevada Legislators are getting ready to launch. As reported by the new news service, Nevada News Bureau, they are down to the final four in the selection process for who gets the prize to search for new tax ideas that the 2011 Nevada Legislature can tap.
In spite of the impression we’re supposed to be buying that this isn’t a preordained outcome for tax increases – I hope that we’re not required to keep straight faces while we’re being told it’s not a preordained conclusion. When the final outcome is achieved and the package is completed, including the “vision” for all the wonderful things the selected stakeholders deem necessary for the Utopia that Nevada can become with more governmental support, we won’t have to pretend that we’re surprised that the $500,000 spent for the study came up with tax increases.
We agree with Steve Miller, vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute when he observed -- “It’s the same old story,” he said. “The politicians spend every cent in sight. Then they try to fool the voters with a study that is never designed to get spending under control but to find new revenue.”
Until the preordained outcome of legislators voting for tax increases is the un-election of those legislators, we’re going to continue to see Nevada legislators believing that government is more important than those who have to pick up the bill to pay for government spending.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 10/16/2009 4:10 AM 
Categories: Nevada Legislature
Tags: Nevada Nevada News Bureau Tax Study
Categories: Nevada Legislature
Tags: Nevada Nevada News Bureau Tax Study
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