Text Box: ASSEMBLYWOMAN INVITED TO DISCUSS BALLOT INITIATIVES Nevadans still requesting permanent constitutional tax relief HENDERSON, NV - Assemblywoman Sharron Angle (R) Reno has been invited to speak to the residents of the Sun City MacDonald Ranch Community in Henderson about the ballot initiatives including her Angle Property Tax Restraint Initiative (Nevada-style Prop 13) this Monday December 12 at 5:30 PM. The public is invited to attend the forum. "A recent Interim meeting at the Legislature now has lawmakers claiming that their temporary measure for tax relief is somehow better for taxpayers than a constitutional measure" said Mrs. Angle, a conservative Republican known for her tough stand against taxes and excess spending. "Special interest bureaucrats first argued that my Property Tax Initiative would choke the coffers which allow them to keep growing government. Taxpayers weren’t buying it, so now the same self-appointed prophets are trying to convince Nevadans that their temporary measure is somehow better for taxpayers. They will say anything in an effort to distract taxpayers from having real permanent relief." Angle noted that the subcommittee appointed to study the taxation of real property would continue to have several meetings during the next year as they translate and construe the effects of Assembly Bill 489. That bill, which passed in April, only provides temporary measures that limit property tax increases on owner-occupied homes to 3 percent per year and places an 8 percent limit on rental, commercial and other types of property. "Taxpayers have witnessed their property taxes skyrocket. There is not anything in the recent passage of AB489 that guarantees this will not continue to happen." Angle continued that without permanent constitutional relief, lawmakers will change the rules at anytime to continue soaking the taxpayers. "Taxpayers understand this," said Angle. "They saw this same game strategy stretched out beyond the ninth inning in California, and after they sickened from waiting for their own legislators to shelter them, they took matters into their own hands and voted in their own protection. The threat of my Property Tax Restraint Initiative and the Taxpayer Bill of Rights forced the Legislators to control themselves this last session, which is why we saw a some tax relief and a spending plan that was curtailed to population growth plus inflation. The hard-working taxpayers want these actions to become stable and permanent. Angle added that the signature gathering by volunteers has been going smoothly, but cautioned that obstructionists will continue to try different tactics to thwart a constitutional passage that protects taxpayers.