I’m blogging live from the old Supreme Court chambers on the second floor of the state Capitol in Carson City, preparing to attend tonight’s State-of-the-State address by Gov. Jim Gibbons. In it, Gov. Gibbons is expected to outline his proposed budget for the next biennium, which reportedly will include an overall spending increase in the neighborhood of 18-20 percent.
My big question for the Tax & Spending Control TASC) initiative supporters from last year is simply this: If TASC was already in place and the law of the land in Nevada, what percentage increase in spending would be allowed for the coming biennium?
A lot of other questions will follow that one.
Another question: Sen. Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas), the father of TASC, often maintained that the TASC limitations were different (and more restrictive) from the existing spending limitation law, passed in 1979, which requires the governor to submit a budget which doesn’t exceed population growth plus inflation. Some serious, UNDERSTANDABLE clarifications on the differences between the two would be extremely helpful. For example, are both using the same population growth and inflation figures from the same sources?
Inquiring minds wanna know…
Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
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