Fewer Benefits Part of the State Employee Tax

May 9, 2011

Governor Sandoval and his minions are proposing to give state employees fewer benefits in AB 560 which proposes to reduce vacation and sick leave days for state employees. This proposal is in addition to an across-the-board 5 percent pay cut and maintaining the pay freezes of the past few years. This doesn’t even count the significant reduction in health benefits and an increase in retirement contributions to just over 12 percent which start July 1st.

Apparently, the “No new taxes” mantra does not apply to state employees who are expected to pay for the services of  all Nevadans with their salaries. This is the State Employee Tax and it is a tax others would be unwilling to accept, especially those proposing the law.

Why does the Governor and many legislators expect state employees to subsidize the state? Aren’t subsidies welfare? Aren’t they a “bad thing”? They do it because they know they can… state employees have no collective bargaining and have to take what they get.

How about a tax on Republicans or to be fair, a tax on politicians and their families? Not fair? Too bad!