Who Can Be Sold Out To Get Tax Increases For Others?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
For those who might be unfamiliar with the workings of Nevada’s Legislative process, this news account from the Las Vegas Sun offers great insight. Having watched this approach play itself out a number of times, each time involving the same cast of characters (or would they be civic leaders?) – the story should not be considered as any type of revelation.
In Saturday’s Town Hall meeting, put on by the Legislature to provide the opportunity for citizens to give their input the ideas surfaced involved nearly 100 percent of the time coming in the form of don’t cut the spending coming to whoever was doing the speaking – raise taxes on mining and gaming. If the speakers advancing this cause could only have been privy to the scheming going on for their good, by the very villains who they were trying to excoriate, they would have been able to have come up with better tax targets to focus on.
Again the old adage proves true – the perfect tax plan is designing something for somebody else to pay, made possible by behind the scenes arrangements. That trite idea of “transparency” just doesn’t make for very effective governance when your mission is to grow spending capacity and increased power.
Whoever said that representative government didn’t have to smell? They probably weren’t close to the power-players of Nevada’s system…
For those who might be unfamiliar with the workings of Nevada’s Legislative process, this news account from the Las Vegas Sun offers great insight. Having watched this approach play itself out a number of times, each time involving the same cast of characters (or would they be civic leaders?) – the story should not be considered as any type of revelation.
In Saturday’s Town Hall meeting, put on by the Legislature to provide the opportunity for citizens to give their input the ideas surfaced involved nearly 100 percent of the time coming in the form of don’t cut the spending coming to whoever was doing the speaking – raise taxes on mining and gaming. If the speakers advancing this cause could only have been privy to the scheming going on for their good, by the very villains who they were trying to excoriate, they would have been able to have come up with better tax targets to focus on.
Again the old adage proves true – the perfect tax plan is designing something for somebody else to pay, made possible by behind the scenes arrangements. That trite idea of “transparency” just doesn’t make for very effective governance when your mission is to grow spending capacity and increased power.
Whoever said that representative government didn’t have to smell? They probably weren’t close to the power-players of Nevada’s system…
Posted by Doug Busselman at 1/30/2011 6:42 AM 
Categories: 2011 Nevada Legislature
Tags: Nevavda Taxes Nevada Legislature
Categories: 2011 Nevada Legislature
Tags: Nevavda Taxes Nevada Legislature
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