Reno News and Review: Workers Stuck with the Check

According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Nevada’s poorest 20 percent of families pay 6.1 percent of their income in sales tax. The wealthiest one percent of Nevada families pay six-tenths of 1 percent.

Given the fact that low income people bear a heavier portion of taxation in Nevada than the affluent, the 2015 “school choice” program is actually an income redistribution program under which—if it ever takes effect—the working poor would help pay the private school tuition of those at the top. Though the affluent usually are critical of income redistribution, there has been little criticism of this version. Read more