Lincoln Journal Star on April 18: Local View: Now is not the time for talk of tax cuts

During our campaigns for the Legislature, we all ran on a platform of lowering taxes. Once elected to the Legislature, however, we quickly learned that there just isn’t a lot of fat to cut and that sooner or later, any income tax cut would result in a cut to services we know Nebraskans need, or a shifting of responsibility on to the local level in the form of increased property taxes. Read the full article.