Political Quotes

“I rise in strong support of the amendment offered by my colleague, Senator Reid. As Senator Reid has already described, this amendment would eliminate an unfair and discriminatory tax faced by many retirees in Nevada, and throughout the Nation--the State source income tax. This pernicious tax places a completely unfair burden on retirees who move away from the State where they spent their working years. In Nevada, many of these retirees come from California; in Florida, many of the retirees come from other States on the Atlantic seaboard; in every case, however, retirees are finding that their former State of residence is demanding tax payments from them based solely on their former residence in the State. In many instances, the retiree has not lived in the taxing State for years, if not decades, and in every instance, the retiree is being forced to pay for government services they derive no benefit from, and over which they have no control, due to their inability to vote in the taxing State.”