Maybe If We Were Just Taxing More
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Those in charge of the Nevada Legislature will probably not consider the dire straights of business as a reason for not pushing to expand the tax base and require the private sector to pay more so that their friends who cash those state government checks can be provided for, but this type of information should drive home the point that Nevada business cannot pay what they don’t have. The belief that there should be no end to the expansion of government payouts seems to be a concept that has no understanding or capability of being grasped by the champions of Big Government.
One hope for a meaningful solution to the drive for further expansion of Nevada government and even greater tax burdens will be the 2010 election and putting people in office who understand that fiscal responsibility would be a welcomed change. The notion needs to be dismissed that all it will take is a magic tax system which requires business to pay their fair share – and all our spending requirements can be satisfied.
I suppose if you want to grow even greater unemployment rates and further cripple (perhaps even destroy) the state’s economy entirely – tax increases and expansion of the public sector at the expense of the private sector which has to pay the bills – probably will be a quick way to do it. The level of legislatively approved spending has exceeded the ability for business enterprises to carry the weight and its showing in not only the unemployment rates, but also in the deficit that lawmakers had to backfill with more of their schemes during the 2010 special session. Still the majority party doesn’t get it…their perspective is just require more taxes to be paid and everything will be fine.
This demonstration clearly indicates that unless Nevada voters can be protected with a constitutional provision to limit state spending – the hole’s our legislators are digging and planning to make deeper will not be capable of fixing. Hopefully, it won’t be too long and that option, a voter-approved, constitutional limit on state spending, will be put on the ballot for action.
Those in charge of the Nevada Legislature will probably not consider the dire straights of business as a reason for not pushing to expand the tax base and require the private sector to pay more so that their friends who cash those state government checks can be provided for, but this type of information should drive home the point that Nevada business cannot pay what they don’t have. The belief that there should be no end to the expansion of government payouts seems to be a concept that has no understanding or capability of being grasped by the champions of Big Government.
One hope for a meaningful solution to the drive for further expansion of Nevada government and even greater tax burdens will be the 2010 election and putting people in office who understand that fiscal responsibility would be a welcomed change. The notion needs to be dismissed that all it will take is a magic tax system which requires business to pay their fair share – and all our spending requirements can be satisfied.
I suppose if you want to grow even greater unemployment rates and further cripple (perhaps even destroy) the state’s economy entirely – tax increases and expansion of the public sector at the expense of the private sector which has to pay the bills – probably will be a quick way to do it. The level of legislatively approved spending has exceeded the ability for business enterprises to carry the weight and its showing in not only the unemployment rates, but also in the deficit that lawmakers had to backfill with more of their schemes during the 2010 special session. Still the majority party doesn’t get it…their perspective is just require more taxes to be paid and everything will be fine.
This demonstration clearly indicates that unless Nevada voters can be protected with a constitutional provision to limit state spending – the hole’s our legislators are digging and planning to make deeper will not be capable of fixing. Hopefully, it won’t be too long and that option, a voter-approved, constitutional limit on state spending, will be put on the ballot for action.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 3/21/2010 5:48 AM 
Categories: Nevada Budget
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes Nevada Legislature Government
Categories: Nevada Budget
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes Nevada Legislature Government
We all know that tax is the blood of the government because without this the government won’t have fund for the projects that they want to impose. The House will vote on the health care bill on Sunday, and there are additional Democrats crossing the line to vote for it. After original opposition, Dennis Kucinich decided to vote yes and John Boccieri (D-OH) recently chose to vote yes as well. The CBO can't determine if will trim the deficit, or send the government hunting for payday advances if it passes, and honestly, they have about as much accuracy as chance. Health care reform should indeed be an important issue, but I'm still not entirely sold that we need government in on the action.
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