“I’ve committed, we’re not going to be raising taxes. That’s not my intent.”
Governor-elect Steve Sisolak on election night. Photo: Michael Lyle
Instead Sisolak says the state “can do a lot with reallocation” of state revenue streams.
As an example, Sisolak pointed to the relationship between jail and Nevada’s mental health services.
“It costs us more to incarcerate an inmate for a day then it does to put him in a mental health facility. Currently, better than a third of the people we have in the Clark County Detention Center are really not criminals, they’re mental health patients. I’d rather spend that money treating their mental health issues than I would incarcerating them,” Sisolak said.
“We have a mental health crisis,” Sisolak added. “A big part of our homeless situation is mental health. Part of the violence, the crime situation is mental health.”
Sisolak said Nevada hasn’t adequately funded mental health “in the last decade or so, and I want to bring more attention to that.”
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Great Idea, mental health issues is what’s causing all the shooting around this country, increasing the tax base on those greedy casinos would do it and it would help our education system also, we need someone with big Cojones to go after the casino companies and their lobbying machine.
Great Idea, mental health issues is what’s causing all the shooting around this country, increasing the tax base on those greedy casinos would do it and it would help our education system also, we need someone with big Cojones to go after the casino companies and their lobbying machine.