Nevada’s Legislature had 40 days to either enact or reject the business tax that teachers have qualified to put on the ballot in 2014. That deadline came and went last week, and underscoring why teachers took to the initiative process in the first place, your lawmakers did what they do best: jack.
Legislative inaction means the business tax will be on the 2014 ballot. Recent polling suggests it would pass easily if the election was today. But of course the election isn’t for another 20 months, a long time for lavishly funded big business front groups like the Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Association of Nevada to explain at you about how Nevada’s brave “job creators” are too weak to do what their counterparts in 47 other states do: Pay some form of tax on income or revenue.