. @GovSisolak @davidbobzien @MJBofNEV @JasonFrierson @Nicole4Nevada @Irahansen @Ben_Kieckhefer @SteveYeagerNV @HeidiAnnSwank @Cohen4AD29 years before I became a #nvleg Twitter Troll, I managed the Northern Nevada Economic Planning Process in 2012 & wrote the "Economic Blueprint

For Western Nevada." That document was the foundation of some of this state's economic development successes. I then worked for two years on economic development issues for @RepHorsford & then ran an economic development district in Washington State where I worked

With the US Department of Commerce to address economic recovery from disastrous wildfires and worked to create or retain industrial jobs along the Canadian border. I know both sides of the equation, and there's a simple solution you all can do to address the budget crisis

Now, make businesses which have benefited from tax incentives be good corporate citizens who contribute to the long-term good (education, public health) of this state and still allow them to profit as much as they have planned. If you cut all of the tax incentives in this state

By 50% for this year, it'll be enough to at least halve your budget hole. I ran for Mineral County Commissioner a few years back. I learned that there's an energy project in Mineral County that benefits from Governor's Office of Energy tax abatements. The figure for the largest

Incentive is $1.8 million annually alone. The county has somewhere around a $9 milliom budget. And that's just one project. Granted businesses have factored these tax incentives in to the debt service on their projects, and we want them to stay here. But the reality is

That you can't just pack up a power plant that is designed to meet California's energy portfolio standards. The reality is you can't just pack up a car battery factory that you've already pumped over a billion dollars into. If we ask these businesses to give up half their

Incentives for the remainder of the biennium, they'll survive. It's asking those that can afford it to pitch in & help. And if we said that in exchange for giving up half their incentives for the remainder of the biennium in order to address COVID, we would grant them a full

Year of a full incentive at the back end of their deal with @DiversifyNevada @NevGOE, then I have a hard time seeing how even @WarrenBuffett opposes that. Especially when these very businesses are reliant on our education system to produce the workforce of the future.

Nobody wants to alter deals midstream. I get that. It's a precedent that will make future recruitment more difficult. But this is a once in a lifetime situation that calls for innovative solutions. And it's an easier problem to have than further hollowing out one of the worst

Education systems in the country. Workforce skills were a big part of our planning process back in 2012. We've made a lot of progress on those issues since then. But if we do the wrong thing right now, we will undo all that progress & make NV's problem endemic. #nvleg