Services tax?!?! SERVICES TAX?!?! #NVLeg

You have got to be kidding me!?!?

The speaker of the assembly Marilyn Kirkpatrick & leader of the democratic caucus at the 2013 Nevada Legislative session has been talking up a tax on some "services", which means haircuts, pedicures, manicures, and other small services that people use every day.

So this is the big idea to spread and broaden Nevada's tax base and revenue stream?!?!?!

Oh, Crap NO!!!

This theory to add additional taxation on services is nothing more than piling more taxation on the backs of the very people that can't afford it.

Where's the obvious solution of, perhaps, taxing a little of the business community in Nevada??

The Nevada State Education Association got a petition through multiple hurdles to make it to the legislature, which would levy a small 2% tax on large business in Nevada to help fund education in the state! But apparently in Nevada we can't touch a penny of corporate/business money because of some phobia that adding a piddly 2% tax will cause these oppressed businesses to just pack up and leave Nevada!!

Let's see:

Mining digs huge holes, moves mountains, poisons water sheds & aquifers, disrupts wildlife, leaves toxic chemical ponds and carts off Nevada's mineral wealth while paying a pittance in taxes to Nevada and converting Nevada's mineral wealth into vast profits that are enjoyed in Colorado, Canada and other locale's outside Nevada!! Gotta love that!!! Come in dig the holes, leave with the loot!!! Don't believe me, check a map of GHOST TOWNS in Nevada - everyone another chapter in the looting of Nevada's minerals and whoever's left is informed to "STAY AWAY FROM OPEN MINE SHAFTS!", lest we bumble and fall into one of history's holes.

Big business is apparently taboo also. Big retail has a nice little deal going for them in Nevada! Big retail can gleefully locate their stores in Nevada knowing they will NEVER be asked to pay a few cents on the vast profits that each store sends out of Nevada to their corporate headquarters outside Nevada. So while Wal-mart and other big retailers know this, you think they might give their Nevada customers a little break on the price of their goods? Not a chance!

Think that Nevada's LOW TAXATION & BUSINESS FRIENDLY ways would draw corporations to Nevada in droves in their quest for a tax free, wide open, little regulation place like Nevada............we've been waiting for 149 years!!!

Then we have gaming (used to be called gambling ;) ), who has a tax rate in Nevada that has been untouched for decades. Try to get Nevada casino's to pay a wee bit more, say 7% (up from 6.3%) and you would think the high rollers were wiping out the dice tables & hitting runs of 21's on the blackjack tables with all the moaning and hand wringing the casino bosses go through. yet these same casino company's are actively competing against one another to locate casino's in states that have taxation rates in the 20%'s, 30%'s and even 40%'s?!?!? Wow, where's all the caterwauling we see in Nevada when, maybe, a 0.7% increase is proposed???

You see in Nevada, these 3 business entities run the state (and along with their army of extravagantly paid lobbyists). So the average Jane or Joe has little hope to ever see these titans of industry pay a few dollars in additional tax............no it seems much better to pry another 3%, 5% 8% out of the public's pocket when they get hair cuts, pedicures or spa treatments.