Dear Editor,
Today, we have an anti-growth, overly complicated and out-of-date tax code. Our tax code currently suppresses American business growth, is far too complex for the average citizen, and is full of cronyism. Over the past few decades, the U.S. tax code has become a significant obstacle to prosperity and opportunity for families in Nevada. It isn’t just my family which suffers, Americans collectively spend 9 billion hours just filing and complying with the IRS tax code.
President Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear before the November 2016 election that pro-growth tax reform would be a major legislative priority for Republicans in 2017 if they were given the chance to govern. Now Congressional Republicans have that chance to provide tax relief through long overdue, sensible tax reform.
Congressman Amodei should support a tax plan which lowers and simplifies individual tax rates, lowers the corporate tax rate, permits “full expensing,” establishes a territorial tax system, removes double taxation on profits made abroad, and ends cronyism.
After all, the federal government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
Darla A. Lee
Sparks
Steve Norman says
I am cancelling my subscription to your newspaper. Your editorial staff seems blinded by ordinary greed. The Sparks Tribune editorial advocates dismantling the Commerce Tax. That bit of tax directly benefits children by easing the overcrowding conditions of the Washoe County School District. I believe that you pretend to advocate for children and families by sports coverage and frequent stories about children in our community. You want to project that you care about families, schools and the children of this community. Yet at the same time, you advocate elimination of the Commerce Tax that benefits children, students, families and our community. Your position is that the money is wasted going to a school district that has not produced great results in years as the reason to abandon them now in their greatest time of need. We should support our community by standing up tall and proudly paying a fair share. The alternative is to dodge and fake and whine about paying a fair share. Your paper does not support the Commerce Tax as being fair. Do you have an alternative plan to solve the overcrowding? If not the Commerce Tax then what? You are strangely silent on alternatives. I think you should be ashamed of your editorial position because you a looking like hypocrites.
Stephen Norman
Sparks, NV
NV Condor says
Ms. Lee,
Everyday seems to be record day on Wall Street. Corporate America is flush with cash. The top one percent is doing just fine. It is everyone else that struggles with stagnant wages and a reduced standard of living.
Yet you want to provide them with more give-aways in tax relief to the one percent, at the expense of the middle class. This isn’t tax reform. It’s a gift to the “Donor Class” from politicians that are beholding to them. I’m fairly certain that Rep. Amodei needs no urging from you to take care of those special interests that are more of a priority than the people he is supposed to serve.
Before you jump on the Fox News bandwagon, perhaps you should take a hard look at the Tax Reform Bill and see who will actually benefit.