LINCOLN- An effort to upend Nebraska's entire tax system, according to campaign finance reports, took a key last step in October that may allow organizers to place a pair of constitutional amendments on the November 2024 ballot. Last month, the "EPIC Option" petition drive contracted with a Florida company to provide paid circulators to better organize volunteer signature-gathering efforts.

Steve Jessen, one of the lead organizers for the drive, said that, so far, they have relied on an army of volunteer signature gatherers who, according to Jessen, are fueled by anger over high property taxes. He said Nebraskan's anger has gotten to the point where he can get petition signatures by simply asking residents if they want to eliminate their property tax.

The petition seeks to eliminate property, income, inheritance, and sales tax, and replace them with a broad-based consumption tax, which would be charged on all new goods and services, besides groceries, with revenue collected and distributed by the state. The alternative tax system was first introduced by Sen. Steve Erdman in the Legislature. Erdman argued that his EPIC plan would attract new people and businesses to Nebraska, while still providing all state-funded entities with the same amount of revenue.

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