Issues
Hundreds of bills come before the assembly during each legislative session. There is no way to answer every policy question in this forum, but the following views on select topics should help you get a better sense of where Mark Sherwood stands on the issues.
TAXES & SPENDING
Discussing any “broad based tax” without first enacting real spending reform is irresponsible. What’s more because of rising unemployment, tax receipts are continuing to decline and the base of state tax payers is shrinking. We will never be able to fully address this fiscal crisis without first looking at how we budget and spend our limited tax dollars.
HEALTH CARE
Mark Sherwood supports common sense health care policy to lower costs and keep qualified doctors and other health care workers in Nevada. He opposes last year’s Assembly Bill 495, which if enacted would lead to higher insurance rates and fewer doctors for the residents of our state.
Mark Sherwood opposes the recently enacted national health care plan because it will saddle the state of Nevada with federal health care mandates in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “Obamacare” puts a massive burden on the state of Nevada in the form of 50/50 matching medicare payments. The federal estimate for such payments is $600,000,000 in year one alone.
EDUCATION
Mark Sherwood is the only candidate who actually has children who attend Clark County public schools. He supports localizing education as much as possible. Individual parents and teachers know best what works for their kids. Nationalizing education and taking away local autonomy from teachers and parents is the wrong direction for Nevada.
TRANSPARENCY
Mark Sherwood confirmed with the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he would sign a transparency pledge. His opponent, Ellen Spiegel, said the only transparency pledge she will sign is one that “she wrote herself”.