We're Not Alone, Part 2...
...they're ignoring the will of the people too.
Voters in Nevada overwhelmingly passed an amendment to their state constitution in 1990 expressly forbidding an income tax. But a task force assigned to come up with new ways to enlarge state government revenues has broached the idea of imposing an income tax anyway, according to this story from Thursday's Las Vegas Review-Journal. One member of the tax task force is Brian Greenspun, president and editor of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. No bias problem there, right? He's pushing an income tax. Newspapers are on a long list of items in Nevada that are exempt from Nevada's sales tax. Hmm. Newspapers in Tennessee are exempt from our sales tax. So an obviously biased newspaper editor is pushing for the state to levy an unconstitutional income tax while his newspaper luxuriates in tax exemptions. Gee. Sounds like home.

Even more like here: the paper reports that "one of the problems facing the task force is no agreement exists on whether the state needs $100 million or $1 billion more a year." And, naturally, the Nevada State Education Association supports an income tax.