Individual taxpayers need to step up to the plate as well. A 4 year Nevada drivers license renewal costs $16.00. That is equivalent to 3 gallons of gasoline. Are you kidding me? Nevada residents can fork over $50.00 per year for the right to drive. I know this hurts poor people, but what tax doesn't??????

How about a minimum fee for auto registrations. $150.00 to register a car- period. I have 3 older cars and only pay $40.00 per year/per vehicle but I drive them on new million dollar highways just like the new cars. This fee would raise revenues and get some of the old junkers off the highway. I know - this hurts poor people but what tax doesn't??????? Maybe the poor could get some kind of exemption?

Start a Nevada state sales tax for education. 1 percent tacked on to every purchase. 1 Penny from each dollar goes to the schools and teachers, not administrators. This would raise millions of dollars and sales taxes are deductible on Federal tax returns.

Businesses already pay taxes on payroll. Leave them alone, they provide jobs! Cut the bloated government and make individuals that benefit from state money (education for example) pay for them.

News flash for News 1950!
Whatever you do, give your social security check back, drive your car on private roads only, get your colon screening done at a private "unchecked" medical clinic, don't use your medicare when you are sick, don't ever ask for any city, state, or federal worker to do anything for you or your children, don't call 911 because no one will answer. I think you get the message. You enjoy government services just like the rest of us and those services cost money. Wyoming pays teachers $45,000 to start work! If Nevada won't compete, then teachers won't work here- plain and simple. Too many people believe that services are to be paid by a tourist. If tourists don't come due to high fuel prices, who is going to pay??? We need a governor that is smart enough to realize that slash and burn is not the answer to our current problem. A small food tax along with modest cuts could easily balance the budget. I would gladly pay $30.00 extra for food per month if it would keep our teachers, police, and firemen from leaving the state. Think about it.

Algae is the answer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHjg9l-h...

Sequester carbon in algae - refine it - create different grades of diesel, jet fuel, and kerosene. They can use the CO2 from the coal stacks to make fuel. The water can be brackish or partially treated sewage water. What are we waiting for? Oh yes, the oil cartel (Exxon, Chevron) want to control this technology as well. Ethanol is not, nor ever will be the answer!
Algae is the future and the big oil companies know it.

Gibbons defined:
Same old Republican boiler plate message of "no new taxes". Same old Republican shenanigans with women, congressional pages, wide stance bathroom stalls, etc. Same old lies and cover ups (Nixonesque). Same old corruption. Same old disregard for the people you represent. Same old "blame the reporter or newspaper" for everything. Same old "Family and Religious Values" that seem to mean nothing at all? I agree with Moethegrass- blubbering idiots fall from the Republican tree no matter how the wind blows.

Nevada citizens, businesses, and corporations believe that taxes will be paid by someone else, not them. Read post above this one.

ALL CITIZENS OF NEVADA NEED TO SHARE THE BURDEN OF EDUCATION, PRISONS, ROADS, BRIDGES, UNIVERSITIES, MEDICAL INSURANCE, ETC.

We need to take responsibility for what we need versus what some special interests believe we deserve.