My state senator’s bill to turn Nebraska into a libertarian paradise has failed in the Unicameral.

Plan to replace all taxes with consumption tax falls short in Nebraska Legislature (Omaha World-Herald)

It needed 25 votes to pass. The vote was 23 Aye, 19 Nay, 5 Abstain, 2 Absent.

If passed by the Legislature and approved by voters, LR 11CA would eliminate virtually all state and local taxes in Nebraska and instead apply a consumption tax on all services and new goods. The measure would allow local governments to impose their own consumption taxes in addition to the state tax.

Erdman, who introduced the consumption tax idea last year, touted it as a solution to Nebraska’s “high tax” problems. He said people and businesses would be drawn to the state because they would not have to pay income, sales, property or inheritance taxes.

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The same argument in reverse (high taxes) is also used by Republicans here to explain away youth “brain drain” from the state (not crappy conservative policies, because conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed).