77th (2013) Session
Opinions
View all submitted comments for each bill by the most recent, by votes for, or by votes against.
| AB49 | ||
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| For | May-08-2013 | |
| Against | Am against any kind of service sales tax. It's regressive on the poor. | Apr-26-2013 |
| Against | More taxes! Always more, never less. Higher taxes contribute to the increase in the indigent population. Soon we will all be indigent. Then who will be left to tax? We pay for indigent utility bills, cell phones, housing, food stamps, medical care, public defenders. At some point, it won't pay to work, if we are expected to support so many others who don't. | Apr-11-2013 |
| Against | Apr-11-2013 | |
| Against | no new taxes | Apr-10-2013 |
| Against | Apr-02-2013 | |
| Against | Apr-01-2013 | |
| Against | Mar-31-2013 | |
| Against | Please vote against this bill. No new taxes, Thank you | Mar-19-2013 |
| Against | I do not support this bill. Most of our families are hanging by a thread financially. Yes, it's clear that we need to increase funding for our schools. But we should do it from economic development, create new businesses and get more people back to work. This would increase revenues from business taxes and payroll taxes, as opposed to putting this burden on the few people left who have an income while sparing big businesses that have become hugely profitable by robbing the states natural resources. As we all know, once a tax is increased, it's often hard to put the genie back in the bottle. | Mar-18-2013 |
| For | Mar-17-2013 | |
| Against | Mar-13-2013 | |
| Against | While I applaud the apparent intent of A.B. 49; increasing taxes to provide Constitutional Rights is not the way to proceed. The simplest way for Nevada to diminish this portion of the national urban crisis is to change the wording of NRS 193.150 from “Every person convicted of a misdemeanor shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months” to “...not more than six months, less one day.” Doing this would eliminate the need for public defenders in misdemeanor cases. This would not only help avoid the costs associated with hiring so many attorneys, it would also help foster respect for the system as defendants would then be allowed to speak their peace (or piece if you prefer) before a judge instead of having a government paid attorney make all decisions and force them upon defendants. This would free attorneys to spend more time with those charged with felonies who really do need the assistance of a good attorney. I suggest that judges and attorneys read Healing Trauma by Peter Levine, Ph.D. Understanding the effects of trauma, even when it doesn’t reach the level of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder needs to be the next step in developing good jurisprudence. The Dalai Lama’s method of transforming anger can be utilized by everyone regardless of any (or no) religious affiliation. See Transforming Anger - http://youtu.be/S8WB4KIn5qs . (Please review Plea Bargains – An Evil Destroying America? - http://youtu.be/VSZZXgevT7k ). While it has been 19 years since I last had to deal with a public defender – (I managed to get the S.O.B. fired – or at least forced to resign – I’m not sure which) my experience with public defenders (In the State of California and County of Los Angeles) left me with complete, total and absolute disgust. (Please see An Open letter to the Attorney General of Nevada - http://occupyreno.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/an-open-letter-to-the-attorney-general-of-the-state-of-nevada/ .) | Mar-03-2013 |
| Against | No more taxes. | Feb-28-2013 |
| Against | Feb-27-2013 | |
| Against | No more taxes! This would kill our recovery! | Feb-24-2013 |
| Against | The Deputy Public Defenders are paid by the counties in which they serve, just as the Deputy District Attorneys are. To add a tax to fund the Public Defenders, with no possible way to enforce that the funds are used to solely defend the indigent, is unfair to the people of this state. There simply cannot be a proper or effective check and balance to oversee the use of the funds. Also, this bill would force a tax on all citizens of this state to further fund the defense of the accused, while providing no additional funds to the county prosecutors to screen the cases to determine if they are worthy of prosecution, as well as providing no funding to prosecute cases they determine are worthy of prosecution. This Bill would force an inequality of justice, something that we must stand against. At the very least, no party in the justice system should be allowed any advantage, as justice is not only supposed to be blind, but also equal, not only for the accused, but for civil society and the accuser. | Feb-23-2013 |
| Against | Please vote against this. Thank you. | Feb-21-2013 |
| Against | Another tax imposed by those having taxes in their DNA | Feb-19-2013 |
| Against | The state already has the mechanism and personnel in place to collect and redistribute the sales tax. Therefore this bill should not require a "service fee" to be deducted from this new 1/8th cent tax before these additional funds are redistributed to the counties. It does not cost more to write a larger check. This bill also authorizes counties to levy an additional 1/8th cent tax. The total is an additional 1/4th cent to the tax paying public. Is there no legal limit on the maximum amount to which the sales tax can be raised? Is this the rate is set, bit by bit, salami slice by salami slice? The bill also establishes a new "board of trustees." This is just another unnecessary increase in administrative costs, which works contrary to the intention of this bill. | Feb-18-2013 |
| Against | Feb-18-2013 | |
| Against | I'm against imposing any additional taxes on the citizen's of this state. The public defenders office needs to live with in there budget. | Feb-18-2013 |
| Against | The state already has the mechanism and personnel in place to collect and redistribute the sales tax. Therefore this bill should not require a "service fee" to be deducted from this new 1/8th cent tax before these additional funds are redistributed to the counties. It does not cost more to write a larger check. This bill also authorizes counties to levy an additional 1/8th cent tax. The total is an additional 1/4th cent to the tax paying public. Is there no legal limit on the maximum amount to which the sales tax can be raised? Is this the rate is set, bit by bit, salami slice by salami slice? The bill also establishes a new "board of trustees." This is just another unnecessary increase in administrative costs, which works contrary to the intention of this bill. | Feb-18-2013 |
| Against | Feb-15-2013 | |
| Against | We already pat far too much in tax dollars to "support" indigent persons in various ways. Free medical, now taxes for free legal...Does anyone even check that people receiving legal services are citizens of the United States affording them rights under the Constitution to access the legal system? | Feb-07-2013 |
| Against | Jan-25-2013 | |
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