Our Republican governor is about to call a special legislative session. One of the things that likely includes? A massive tax giveaway to lure more giant corporate profiteers to Nevada.
When you think about Carson City giving tax incentives for billion-dollar film companies to come here in the name of jobs, I want you to think of a mom I met recently. She is employed full time at Elon Musk’s Tesla factory outside Reno, but she can’t afford rent. She earns so little she qualifies for Medicaid. And she sits in horrible traffic to get to the Tesla plant every day, while a huge chunk of her paycheck goes to childcare.
Now imagine being this mother, opening the news to see that over $1 trillion was just slashed from Medicaid — the only thing keeping her family’s health care afloat. Special le