Dean Hellers Tax Raising Hypocrisy Exposed
Las Vegas, NV – The AP reported today that despite unelected junior Senator Dean Heller’s recent anti-tax rhetoric, his record is littered with vote after vote to increase taxes on middle class Nevadans. From inheritance taxes to automobile and hotel room taxes, Heller repeatedly voted to increase taxes that directly hit Nevada families.
From the AP:
Likewise, Heller hasn't always been anti-tax. As a state Assemblyman in the early 1990s, he voted various times to raise states taxes, including an inheritance tax, property tax, real estate transfer tax, school support tax and sales tax. At one point, however, Heller also voted against two of the three major taxes approved by the Legislature.
During the contentious 2006 Republican primary that ultimately saw Heller elected to Congress, he defended his record.
“There is nobody in the race who didn't raise taxes,” Heller said at the time, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “One of the responsibilities the state has is educating youth. If you had a reason to raise taxes, then that was it.”
“Dean Heller’s rhetoric on taxes is as hypocritical as when he says he wants to protect seniors and create jobs then votes twice to end Medicare and destroy thousands of Nevada jobs,” said Zach Hudson, spokesperson for the Nevada State Democratic Party. “Heller’s recent pandering to cover up his abysmal record of supporting tax hikes on Nevada’s middle-class is just the latest in a long series of hypocrisies from a candidate who has built a career out of talking from both sides of his mouth.”