Get Out And Agitate! Mining Needs to Pay Fair Share

This is from Bob Fulkerson over at PLAN. I’ve got some heavy equipment on my plate, but hope to make it down there on Thursday if not tomorrow:

Let’s demand new revenues with the same passion as we denounce the cuts!
Attend two hearings in Carson City and Las Vegas

Tuesday, April 5, at 1 pm, Senate Revenue Committee, Room 2134 and the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas
Support SB 493 to create a Mining Commission to conduct tax and environmental oversight of the industry, and SJR 15 to end mining’s sweetheart tax loopholes by completely eliminating the mining tax section from the Nevada Constitution. If passed by the Legislature, it would require two votes of the people in 2012 and 2014.

Thursday, April 7, 8 am, Assembly Taxation Committee in room 3100 of the Nevada Legislature and the Sawyer building in Carson City and the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas.
Support AB 428 to limit the tax deductions mining enjoys to keep shelter it from meaningful taxation. Over a 10-year period, on 111 occasions, one mine or another did not pay a dime of mining taxes on $4.3 billion in gold produced. It’s time to end the loopholes.

For more information, please see www.planevada.org or
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/forget-audits-mining-exploits-nevada-through-tax-loopholes-118321069.html?ref=069

Comments

[bluelyon]

I'm going to try to get to Thursday's hearing . . .