Nevada Government Wants Your Money Too
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Sitting in a Nevada legislative hearing room in 2009 I had the chance to hear the leaders of the majority party identify their agenda that government was more important than the private sector. They apologized to their government union friends that they wouldn’t be able to quite deliver as much in public spending as they would have wanted. In the 2010 Special Session, watching from the Senate Gallery, the champions of growing a bigger state government hammered the private sector representatives they brought before the Committee as a Whole, attempting to shake out more revenue to cover the spending they would have liked to have dished out.
Leading up to the 2011 Legislative Session we’ve been able to see the positioning of how we’re supposed to believe that Nevada’s mere $6.something Billion budget is going to be $3 Billion in the hole before legislators even get to spend a nickel. Then again , as we’re seeing – a lot of that hole is really anticipated spending increases and perceived requirements for a bigger and more charitable Nevada.
It will be interesting to see whether Nevada voters, casting ballots in the 2010 election, will be influenced by the direction Nevada government is going and equate that those who they vote for to serve in Carson City in the Legislative Branch are really the deciders when it comes to the dollars spent and taxes increased. What difference does it make when it comes to the two candidates for Governor saying they won’t increase taxes – it doesn’t matter whether whoever is elected Governor supports tax increases or not. Legislators decide and when they have the two-thirds majority required for tax increases – they also have the two-thirds needed to override a veto (what part of the Billion tax increase in the 2009 Legislature didn’t you figure out…). It is extremely likely that the 2011 session is going to see that history repeated with the added possibility that not only will tax rates be increased, but new taxes invented to garner more revenue.
With the attention being given to the agenda at the national level for the one-party rulers sticking it to taxpayers we shouldn’t be overlooking the same agenda that state party leaders have in mind.
Sitting in a Nevada legislative hearing room in 2009 I had the chance to hear the leaders of the majority party identify their agenda that government was more important than the private sector. They apologized to their government union friends that they wouldn’t be able to quite deliver as much in public spending as they would have wanted. In the 2010 Special Session, watching from the Senate Gallery, the champions of growing a bigger state government hammered the private sector representatives they brought before the Committee as a Whole, attempting to shake out more revenue to cover the spending they would have liked to have dished out.
Leading up to the 2011 Legislative Session we’ve been able to see the positioning of how we’re supposed to believe that Nevada’s mere $6.something Billion budget is going to be $3 Billion in the hole before legislators even get to spend a nickel. Then again , as we’re seeing – a lot of that hole is really anticipated spending increases and perceived requirements for a bigger and more charitable Nevada.
It will be interesting to see whether Nevada voters, casting ballots in the 2010 election, will be influenced by the direction Nevada government is going and equate that those who they vote for to serve in Carson City in the Legislative Branch are really the deciders when it comes to the dollars spent and taxes increased. What difference does it make when it comes to the two candidates for Governor saying they won’t increase taxes – it doesn’t matter whether whoever is elected Governor supports tax increases or not. Legislators decide and when they have the two-thirds majority required for tax increases – they also have the two-thirds needed to override a veto (what part of the Billion tax increase in the 2009 Legislature didn’t you figure out…). It is extremely likely that the 2011 session is going to see that history repeated with the added possibility that not only will tax rates be increased, but new taxes invented to garner more revenue.
With the attention being given to the agenda at the national level for the one-party rulers sticking it to taxpayers we shouldn’t be overlooking the same agenda that state party leaders have in mind.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 10/23/2010 9:17 AM 
Categories: Nevada State Spending
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes 2010 Election Government
Categories: Nevada State Spending
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes 2010 Election Government
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