Author: Chuck Muth

I’ll surely be called a racist for writing this, nevertheless…

After my blog post on Friday about the situation in Baltimore, suggesting that it was a bad idea for Freddie Gray to run away from the cops, Nevada Democrat Senate Minority Leader Aaron Ford responded on Facebook… “Have you ever been profiled?  I have.  Maybe, Freddie was afraid OF the police, and maybe that’s why […]

Fracking gets frack-taxed in Assembly

The “fracking tax” passed in the Assembly on Friday 35-7. All seven votes against hiking this tax came from signers of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.  Go figure. Regrettably, three Pledge signers broke their promise by voting for this tax hike.  They were: Assembly Speaker-of-the-Weak John Hambrick, Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman and Assemblywoman Robin Titus. All three […]

Conservative Merits of Patent Reform Legislation

In the wake of the Great Recession, the American economy continues to face an anemic recovery as we attempt to return to a period of sustained growth. In fact, just this past week, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the gross domestic product grew at a rate of just 0.2 percent between January and […]

Vote “No” on SB44 Tax Hike on Fracking

There’s an old saying that you get less of that which you tax. With that in mind, SB44 would raise the taxes/fees on “fracking”/energy exploration in Nevada to pay for government regulation. As such, voting for SB44 would absolutely be a violation of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. The bill passed unanimously in Senate Majority Leader […]

Liberal Assemblyblogger gives Conservatives a Hickey

One of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotes is this one: “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant; it’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.” Now, I’m pretty sure the Gipper wasn’t referring to liberal Nevada Assemblyman Pat “The Appeaser” Hickey.  But he could have been. Deposed as Republican Assembly Caucus […]

Taxi Cartel’s Uber-Propaganda Campaign wins…for Now

It’s called “ride-sharing.”  If you haven’t heard about it yet, you will. The concept is as simple and old as the automobile itself.  You don’t have a car.  Or your car is in the shop for repairs.  You need to go somewhere.  Doctor’s appointment, grocery store, kid’s Little League game, whatever.  So you ask a […]

U.S. Sugar Policy: De Minimis Protections against de maximus Agricultural Price Manipulation

While our focus at the “Free Market Sugar” project has been primarily directed at the market-distorting subsidies of sugar by foreign governments, it’s important to realize that similar global market interference exists for a wide variety of other agricultural commodities, as well. An extensive report – “Agricultural Subsidies in Key Developing Countries” by DTB Associates […]

Nevada’s Business Lobbyists are acting like Hannibal Lecter

Here’s the problem… Liberal tax-and-spenders in Nevada have been HUGELY successful in persuading various business entities that the government needs more money.  It has been especially successful in perpetuating the lie that we’re underfunding education. No, we’re not. At almost $9,000 per student, we’re pumping over a quarter-million dollars into the public school system for […]

Dickman Tax Restraint Initiative would close Tax-Hike Loophole

It’s a law of human nature.  If you give students a week to complete a term paper, they will take the full week to complete the term paper.  If you give those same students a month, they’ll take the full month. Same goes for politicians spending your money.  If you give them a dollar, they’ll […]

Exit, Stage Right…No, Left!

This was freaking hilarious.  But I’m not sure I can adequately describe what happened in order to do it justice. As you may recall, I sent out a Brushfire Alert on Sunday letting everyone know that I was driving up to Carson City on Monday to hand-deliver the “Ax the Tax Now” petitions that over […]

American Entrepreneurship stifled by Patent Trolls

Consider the stories of two imaginary American entrepreneurs. One comes home from his day job and spends every spare moment in the basement, tinkering away with gears and springs. For years, he’s committed himself to a single goal: building a better mouse trap. He toils at this for years, and after many failed prototypes and […]

Ax the Tax Now…Maggot!

Wow. When I closed out the online “Ax the Tax Now” petition this afternoon, over 800 people had co-signed it.  That’s four times the number of people we usually get on letters such as this! CLICK HERE to read the full resolution, as well as see the “who’s who” list of Nevadans who have declared, […]

Standing Up to the PC Pee-Pee Police

AB375 is a bill before the Nevada Legislature that simply says – get this – boys must use the boy’s restroom in public schools and girls must use the girl’s restroom. Well, duh. Yet the left is howling in horror at such a notion, claiming “transgender” kids will commit suicide if they can’t use whatever […]

Goofs and Goons Law Way Overdue

It was 22 years ago this month. A couple from California was visiting Las Vegas.  They walked near a union picket line in front of the then-Frontier Hotel.  Crazed picketers launched into a verbal assault on the couple. When the woman took offense, she was punched in the face.  When her husband came to her defense, […]

New Yucca Mountain Poll shows Dramatic Shift in Public Opinion

For decades now, the acrimonious debate over building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, located about 1,760 football fields away from Las Vegas, has generated enough heat to power a small third-world country. But thanks to an op-ed by freshman Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy, which was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal two weeks […]

Need a Lyft?

So I flew on Southwest Airlines from Vegas to Dulles Airport outside DC on Wednesday.  Had a connecting flight in Denver.  Arrived in Denver just before 10:00 am.  My flight to DC was scheduled for 12:40 pm.  But I noticed there was another flight to Dulles leaving at 10:30 am. Since I had plenty of […]