UNLV Professor Plays the Nazi Card
As I’ve written here many times, there is no level in this budget battle too low to which higher ed officials at Hyperbole U won’t stoop to protect their precious taxpayer subsidies. Indeed, at least three university officials and the former chancellor all publicly blamed late UNR president Milt Glick’s death last month on Gov. […]
Road Trip!
Forget school…let’s go camping! That’s the message sent out via email on Friday by UNLV student and community organizer Michael Flores of (Lack of) Progress Now Nevada. Flores is organizing the camping trip in Carson City this coming week to..to…to, um…supporting the Mother of All Tax hikes on Nevada’s families and small businesses to that […]
Democrats Who Raise “Revenue,” Another in a Series
DEMOCRATS WHO RAISE “REVENUE,” ANOTHER IN A SERIES Assemblywoman Marilyn Dondero-Loop wrote in an email on Friday: “Over the next few days, the Nevada Legislature will be hearing testimony on two bills to raise badly needed revenue to fund…” blah, blah, blah. Why can’t these people call a spade a spade? The two bills raise […]
Republicans Who Raise Taxes; Another in a Series
AB 9 raises taxes. In this case, the “tax” is called a “fee.” Not a fine, mind you. A fee. It raises the fees you have to pay to file a lawsuit, appeal a judgment, request copies of records, etc. The bill clearly states on the first line that it “Requires Two-Thirds Majority Vote,” meaning […]
Goofballs at MoveOn.org Move On Gov. Sandoval
You know you’ve made it as a conservative when the wingnuts at the left-wing MoveOn.org group puts you in their sights. Here’s the fundraising email headlined “Will you stand up to Brian Sandoval” which went out to their nincompoop e-peeps today: Dear Nevada MoveOn member, Imagine if tea party Republicans were in charge of everything—without […]
Lack of Money for Schools Argument Doesn’t Add Up
Lynn Warne, the state teachers union boss, was on Jon Ralston’s Face to Face program on Thursday and bleated out the same old tired clichés, boiled down to this: we don’t have enough funding for education. Bull. One of these days the media is going to pin down these teachers union propagandists and hit them […]
Republicans Who Vote for Tax Hikes
The Sun’s David Schwartz inked a story today about a bill to extend taxes scheduled to sunset which has thus far largely flown under the radar screen – until, of course, Schwartz shined his light on it. No, it’s not the $650 million worth of tax hikes passed in 2009 and scheduled to sunset next […]
I Pledge Allegiance, to the Union…
I was just forwarded the text of a “loyalty oath” that officers, executive board and review board members of the Clark County teachers union are required to take: “I (state your name) do hereby faithfully pledge to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the Clark County Education Association to the best of my ability, […]
Why Teachers Don’t Get No Respect
I’m not sure, but I think the teachers union goofballs act more like children than the children their members teach. Get a load of this call-to-action from Clark County Education Association union boss/head goofball Ruben Murillo which was just sent out: CCEA, along with many schools, has embarked on a letter writing campaign aimed at […]
The Biggest Blown Opportunity of the Year
While it is true, with metaphysical certitude (hat tip to John McLaughlin), that Republicans seemingly never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity (hat tip to Fred Barnes), Democrats in the the 2011 legislative session could well go down in history as blowing the Mother of All Tax Reform opportunities. When it comes to Nevada’s […]
Brower’s Bathroom Breaks: Big Deal
A story in Thursday’s Las Vegas Sun accuses Republican state Sen. Greg Brower – who is running for Nevada’s Second Congressional District against Democrat state Treasurer “Calamity” Kate Marshall (among others) – of being AWOL from legislative meetings since announcing his congressional campaign. Indeed, the Sun headline reads, “One foot out door, Brower scarce around […]
Amazon Issues Ominous Warning to Nevada’s Legislators
As reported earlier this week, the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) has launched a high-priced PR/lobbying campaign in favor of legislation to force out-of-state online retailers such as Amazon.com and Overstocked.com to smack Nevadans with sales tax on their online purchases. This is a tax hike on YOU, by the way, not the online retailer…but […]
The Democrats’ “Tax My Haircut” Bill
Dan Burdish of Citizen Outreach took a quick look at AB 569 – the Democrats’ last-minute, surprise (not really) proposal to tax services as part of their $1.2 billion Mother of All Tax Hikes. If approved, the new tax would add a new 1% (for now) tax to a boatload of services except: 1. Any […]
Old Fundraising Angle from Professional Politician
The message on the outside of the envelope that landed in my mailbox yesterday was ominous: “Harry Reid doesn’t want me in Congress,” the opening line read, with each word underlined. “The Democrat Machine is itching to destroy me. A few hours ago I spoke with my campaign manager. I was shocked by what I […]
Patriots vs. Loyalists: The Never-Ending Battle
Jon Ralston wrote on Tuesday the following: “One Democrat told me today he thought the Republicans here (in Carson City) are divided into two groups – ‘solution-oriented and the ideologues.’ I found that to be humorous and totally untrue. Why? Because just saying no to any new revenue is not an ideology.” Jon is correct. […]
Sen. Ben Ready to Bend on Taxes?
I have said all along that despite him signing that letter earlier this session promising to back Gov. Sandoval’s no-new-taxes budget, freshman Republican Sen. Ben Kieckhefer was NOT a solid vote against tax and/or fee hikes. And sure enough, on Sam Shad’s Nevada Newsmaker program on Tuesday, Kieckhefer said that he didn’t see any chance […]
Taxing the e-Cr*p Out of Us
Muth’s Truths reader Dave Henry raises an excellent point about the Retail Association of Nevada’s effort to tax the Internet – or at least, tax out-of-state online purchases. Let’s say you go online to buy tickets to Disneyland. The ticket price already includes California’s state sales tax. Now, if RAN gets its way, not only […]