[churchillbuff]

Does the Nevada constitution require a 2/3 majority to raise taxes? Seems so in this tidbit, but how could it be ignored so blatantly

The Supreme Court of Nevada -- a bunch of liberals -- last week ordered the Legislature to ignore the 2/3 requirement and pass a tax increase by a simple majority vote. This, even thought the 2/3 requirement is part of the state constitution (put there through a voter initiative in the early 90s)

[Principled]

Found something published.

In one of the purest exercises of democracy known to man, the people of Nevada in 1996 passed Question 11 -- a measure proposed by former Assemblyman (now U.S. Rep.) Jim Gibbons of Reno which requires a two-thirds supermajority vote of both houses of the Legislature to raise our taxes -- by a whopping majority of 70 percent to 30.