Talk on Nevada host Andy Matthews interviews Geoffrey Lawrence, NPRI's fiscal policy analyst, on Nevada's budget situation. Geoffrey is the author of Nevada's Freedom Budget: 2009-2011, which would fund priorities, eliminate waste and save Nevada over $1.7 billion compared to the legislature's budget.
Andy and Geoffrey also talk about legislature's proposed job-killing, record-setting, billion dollar tax increase, but the details are continually changing.
Anjeanette Damon of Inside Nevada Politics reports that the total tax increase will be $781.2 million.
-Sales tax increase of 0.35 percent: $280 million
-Tiered Modified Business Tax rate: $346 million
-Doubling of the business license fee: $61 million
-Changes to governmental services tax on vehicles: $94 million
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