I've also heard it described as "Californication"...

"Fair share" reminds the Socialist-In-Chief moving his serpentine lips about "spreading the wealth around." and "leveling the playing field." .

Agreed. When I was there Washoe County was pretty much right leaning, but no longer. It's sad. I really liked Nevada. I still remember when Nevada was Californias smoking section, and vehicle registration wasn't the same price as cali. No longer for that either.

Paying an equal percentage of each dollar does not lead to fairness. Does this percentage apply to wealth or to earnings, or both? Does the person paying more receive additional government services equal to his/her contribution? Does a person owning, earning and paying nothing receive no government services? Would an equal tax rate of 100% be "fair"?

A uniform tax rate is not an automatic recipe for fairness. There are a multitude of other factors to consider.

Just another sign of the continued Californization of Nevada... the people get fed up with California, move to Nevada, and work their butts off trying to make their new home a clone of the one they just left.

I remember when I lived in Nevada as a very young adult (went for the work), and we that lived there fought tooth and nail to keep that California Influence out of *our* state (and I was a Californian taking part in said fight). Now, it's as if they're an annexed part of it, to the dismay of the rural Nevadans who, like Cali, have to bow to the wishes of the increasing libtard influence of Reno, LV, and Carson. May as well disband Carson City and move the Capitol to Sacramento - a lot of the new age immigrants to that state would be thrilled.

Bottom line - when they hear the state motto "The Silver State" all they think about is how to steal some of that silver to line their own pockets...

Nonsense! The flat tax is regressive and quite unfair.

If you are interested in 'fairness' please read "The Fair Tax" by Neal Boortz. I'd love talk more about it...

"fair share" is nothing more than theft. when the states revenues started to diminish they should have started to reduce their spending. that unfortunately never happens. will they ever return money if the price of gold goes to $50.00 an ounce.

It's really an extraction tax, most states have one and it's usually something like that. The hilarious thing is that the state doesn't have an income tax, but the "voters" don't consider that option, just the one that sticks it to the faceless miners.

This bill is in effect, a bill to raise taxes. As such it works the way that all taxation works. It solves the immediate problem of needing money for -- whatever, but in the long run causes less money to the state when businesses fail to expand or leave for happier hunting grounds, which in addition causes loss of jobs, less taxes and more expenditure. It is a fool's game, and we've been electing fools for more than a century.

"Fair Share" is easy to define. Everyone pays the SAME exact ratio of every dollar.

If you have 100 billion, and the tax is 10% you pay 10%, if you have 10,000 dollars you pay 10%, no more no less. Whatever the rate is it is equal on every person and every dollar to everyone with no deduction, no exemption.

Fair a synonym for Equitable, Unbiased, Impartial.

The larger point is that people don't understand the value of property.

Hank Rearden couldn't afford to build the case for his own rights on the benefit to the rest of us of respecting them. But I can. Or an Ellis Wyatt. I respect their rights because I look forward to trading with them, directly or indirectly.

Gold is in the ground, therefore it's Public Property and Anyone should be able to get their Fair Share of the profit. I don't understand what everyone is so upset about...

Okay, I've stirred that hornet's nest...now, it's off to my government job.

P.S. Guys...don't blackball me...I'm just kidding (except about the government job).

I'm going to run for president on one platform only: Unless you can define it as something other than "more than you're currently paying", the use of the term "fair share" will be a jailable offense.

I have confronted liberal after liberal, and not one of them can even come close to defining the parameters of "fair share".

I can never pin one of them down with a number that would be considered "fair" to them, even though whatever number they'd come up with certainly wouldn't be fair to me. (It already isn't fair to me, but that's a different discussion.)

I have lived in both Reno and Las Vegas. Reno by choice, Vegas for the job. They will kill the golden goose. Clark County can out vote the rest of the state. Eastern Nevada doesn't stand a chance against SEIU and the lib/progressives. There is a reason Scary Harry keeps getting re-elected.

Once again a budget shortfall needs to be corrected by a tax increase. How about reducing spending and eliminating waste? I hope this goes down in flames.

$5Au is appalled by ANY tax on gold.

We would be a better country and the people would have much more freedom if there was a cap on the amount of money every level of government was able to take. I hope that the people are smart enough to keep this cap.