Calling All Citizens
to Ax the Tax Now!
Chuck
Muth
April
2, 2015
In
case you’re still not sure whether or not Gov. Brian Sandoval’s billion dollar giga-tax hike is not only a bad
idea but completely unnecessary, conservatives in the state Assembly have now
removed all doubt.
First,
the supposed reason for Sandoval’s tax hike is to fix education. But repeat after me: More money isn’t the
answer. More money isn’t the
answer. More money isn’t the
answer. More money…
The
ONLY way to fix public education in Nevada is to drive a stake through
the heart of the government’s ability to force kids to go to the neighborhood,
government-owned, union-operated failure factories where they live.
The
real solutions are vouchers, education savings accounts and homeschooling - all
of which get better results for LESS money. Sandoval’s proposed tax hikes do nothing more
than perpetuate the existing public school monopoly that has been nothing short
of a disaster for several generations of kids now.
The
WORST thing we could do for education and our children is to approve the
new and additional government spending on education that the governor’s tax
hike would enable. As such, and with the
legislative session now more than half over, it’s time to ax the tax.
Even
if you buy into Sandoval’s education “reforms,” thanks to conservatives in the
state Assembly we now know that they can be funded without the governor’s
job-killing, economy-crippling gross receipts Business License Tax (BLT).
In
fact, a conservative alternative to Sandoval’s budget was recently announced by
conservative State Controller Ron Knecht
that not only proves the BLT isn’t needed, but that the 2009 package of “temporary”
tax hikes, known as the “sunsets,” can finally actually go away.
The
conservative Balanced Plan for Growth further proves that, contrary to popular
liberal opinion, the problem isn’t the absence of a way to balance the budget and pay for essential services without
raising taxes, but an absence of will.
Sandoval
and his left-hand man in the Senate – Majority Leader Tax Hike Mike Roberson – have dug in their heels and won’t even
consider not raising taxes. Unless they’re
forced to. And the only way to force
them to give up this insane tax hike proposal is for the “Lean 15” to ride
again in the state Assembly.
Thanks
to the Gibbons Tax Restraint law, which requires a 2/3-super majority to raises
taxes or fees, just 15 of the 25 Republicans can band together and block
Sandoval’s Billion Dollar Tax Hike.
And
to that end Citizen Outreach has launched an www.AxTheTaxNow.com online petition where
Nevada citizens, voters and taxpayers can add their name to a letter urging the
Republican majority in the Legislature to back up there campaign rhetoric and
cut, rather than raise, taxes.
So
let it be written; so let it be done.
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(Mr.
Muth is president of Citizen Outreach and the publisher of www.NevadaNewsandViews.com. He personally blogs at www.MuthsTruths.com)
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