Nevada Current: NV can have a job-creating energy agenda, unless it costs money

The bottom 20 percent of Nevadans with an income of less than $20,500 pay 10.2 percent of their daily income in taxes, including 7 percent in sales tax, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. However, Nevadans with an income of $473,600 or higher only pay about 2 percent share of their household income on taxes, 0.7 percent of which are sales tax. Read more