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In this issue of
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We’re getting our clock cleaned
Who pays Nevada’s business taxes?
What REALLY happened in Washington State
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We’re getting our clock cleaned
MONTH AFTER MONTH and year after year, the
Nevada business community is finding itself the
main course on everybody’s dinner plate.
Why is it happening?
The answer is basically simple: Those who want
ever-bigger government and ever-higher taxes on
the rest of us are
one-pointed.
And they’re accomplishing their goals by simply
staying on the offensive and organizing
incessantly to expand the beachhead they’ve
already built in Nevada government.
This is the reason for
BUSINESSNevada
– and
why this first issue is being sent to you.
[To learn how
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business community,
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Ready for an $8.25
minimum wage?
YOU THOUGHT THAT the minimum-wage question on the ballot
last year was just something to kick the minimum wage in
Nevada up a dollar?
Many people did. But
a lot more was at stake than the news media
let on.
Now that same proposal—with all its many
built-in booby traps—has
already passed the Nevada Assembly and received its
first reading in the Senate.
If the Nevada business
community does not weigh in quickly, and massively,
the Silver State’s business climate will never be the
same.
[more]
How ‘bout a $9.12
minimum wage by 2010?
“TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, there are no minimum wage
employees working in the manufacturing companies in
Nevada with the exception of company owners,”
Ray Bacon, of the Nevada Manufacturers Association,
wrote Sen. Randolph Townsend and the state Senate’s
labor committee this week.
“During start up periods or periods of recessions,
company owners often go without pay for some period of
time. We don’t believe you have the authority to
dictate that an owner must pay himself. Just as an
owner can exempt him- or herself from workers
compensation coverage, we suggest the same should apply
to this bill.”
Ray’s point-by-point analysis of the minimum wage
legislation backed by the Nevada State AFL-CIO, Assembly
Bill 87, is posted in
BN’s Business Intelligence section. Here
are some of his projections of future minimum wages in
Nevada, based on provisions in AB 87:
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Year |
NV Min Wg |
Fed. min Wg |
NV Min Wg with fed |
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2006 |
6.15 |
6.55 |
6.55 + 1.40 = 7.95 |
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2007 |
6.33 |
7.25 |
7.25 + 2.10 = 8.35 |
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2008 |
6.52 |
7.25 |
8.35 x 1.03 = 8.60 |
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2009 |
6.72 |
7.25 |
.60 x 1.03 = 8.86 |
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2010 |
6.92 |
7.25 |
9.12 |
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2011 |
7.13 |
7.25 |
9.4 |
Check out Ray’s full
letter, posted in
BusinessNevada’s
Insider section.
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