Coalition proposes referendum to reverse Nevada’s big tax boost
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
You have to give it to anti-tax crusader Chuck Muth. He never throws in the towel.
Muth,
president of Nevada-based Citizen Outreach and backer of Grover
Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge to oppose new tax revenue, said in
a newspaper column Friday that a group called the WeDecideCoalition.com has been formed to put Gov. Brian Sandoval’s revenue plan on the 2016 ballot as a voter referendum.
“Unless
I’m reading it wrong, it certainly appears our Constitution allows we,
the people, to gather enough signatures to put Gov. Sandoval’s tax hike —
including the creation of the new gross receipts tax — on the ballot in
2016 for an up-or-down vote,” Muth said.
Since
voter turnout was so low in the 2014 general election, Muth said it
won’t be that difficult to gather enough signatures to put the tax plan
on the ballot. Ten percent of those who voted last year would have to
sign the petition, which is about 55,000 signatures, he said.
“And
unless Nevada’s business community wants to pay the millions of dollars
this new gross receipts tax is going to steal from their bottom lines,
they should not only join the WeDecideCoalition.com,
but pony up the couple hundred thousand dollars needed to obtain the
number of signatures required to put this referendum on the 2016
ballot,” Muth said.
Seven
referendums have qualified for the Nevada ballot, and six were approved
by voters since the process was authorized in 1908. The last time it
was used was in 1990 to maintain Nevada’s current laws regarding
abortion. It passed.
— Sean Whaley
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