Retail Association Declares Tax War on Nevadans
If you’re a Wal-Mart in Nevada, and someone comes into your store and makes a purchase, you charge that person the Nevada sales tax on the purchase and remit it to the state of Nevada. It doesn’t matter where the customer lives in determining who pays the sales tax and who doesn’t pay the sales […]
Memo to Assembly Republicans: No…New…Taxes
House Speaker John Boehner spoke Monday night to the Economic Club of New York in which he drew a line in the sand on tax hikes. As Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform explains, Boehner declared that there will be no more 1982 or 1990 “Andrews Air Force Base” or “Gang of Six” deals […]
TPX Chugs into Nebraska
Not satisfied with blowing U.S. Senate races in Nevada (Angle), Alaska (Miller) and Delaware (O’Donnell) in 2010, Tea Party Express has announced that it will make a “surprise endorsement” tomorrow in the GOP primary race for the right to take on Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson in November 2012. This just a couple weeks after urging […]
Ellison Sells Out Elko
This might be the most disgusting story of the session regarding an Assembly Republican…though with a month yet to go, I’m not yet willing to declare a definitive winner. As reported here previously, AB 299 would add a new fee to every auto insurance policy in the state in order to create a new low-cost […]
Amodei: The Wrong Side of the “Right”?
Nevada GOP chief Mark Amodei reportedly entered the CD-2 special election today, but we’ve received no such advisory directly from his campaign. Guess it’s because bloggers and citizen journalists aren’t “credentialed” media; the only media invited to his press conference this morning. That said, credentialed mainstream media reporters are reporting that Amodei is not backing […]
Kieckhefer vs. Townsend vs. Republicans
Why is freshman state Sen. Ben Kieckhefer the ONLY Republican in the state Senate thinking about voting with the Democrats to subvert the Nevada Constitution by allowing state Treasurer “Calamity” Kate Marshall to lend taxpayer money to favored private corporations? Well, here’s something we just found out about this morning. Kieckhefer, as you may recall, […]
The End of the World as We Know It
The sub-headline in a front-page story in Monday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal reads: “Nevada State College could be killed outright or folded into another school.” It’s the latest in an ongoing media effort to highlight all the possible negative effects of budget cuts if approved. Here’s the thing: Budget cuts are not a Kobayashi Maru. Fact […]
Suck Nevada Taxpayers Dry in Internet Purchases
If a Nevadan drives to Bullhead City, Arizona or Wendover, Utah or Truckee, California and buys a book, they do NOT have to pay Nevada sales tax on the purchase. Why should they? The retailer is located in another state and uses that other state’s government services, not Nevada’s. So riddle me this, Batman. If […]
Horsford: Tax Hike or Bust!
This Steven Horsford character is a real piece of work. The Nevada Senate Majority Leader insists on raising taxes this session of the Legislature. Gov. Brian Sandoval insists on NOT raising taxes this legislative session. Sandoval campaigned on not raising taxes and was elected on that campaign promise. Horsford did NOT campaign on a promise […]
Republicans Voting Badly; Another in a Series
AB 289 would establish new licensing requirements and impose a new Government Regulation Tax on dieticians and nutritionists, as well as create yet another useless state board overseeing dieticians. This is nothing short of an effort to grow our nanny-state government, “creates a monopoly on nutrition services for dietitians over other nutrition professionals” and is […]
Pravda Mike Strikes Again
Liberal UNLV physics professor Michael “Pravda Mike” Pravica has a new whiny letter-to-the-editor in Sunday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal in which he calls for raising taxes on basically everything under the sun (except on physics professors!) while whimpering that Republicans in the Legislature “won’t work together with Democrats to compromise on this issue.” Waahhhh! Somebody send […]
Tea Party Angst Over Angle
For the record, Nevada tea party activist Karel Smith has my point regarding Sharron Angle and the 2010 GOP primary exactly right: “I repeat that Sharron Angle was not THE tea party candidate; she was A candidate endorsed by one or two tea party groups and she was supported by some people who consider themselves […]
NJ’s Christie Makes Powerful Case for School Vouchers
Add Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as a huge supporter of school choice. Here’s what he said on the matter in a speech to Harvard’s School of Education last week (Hat tip/Political Diary): “It’s easy for the union members making four and five hundred thousand dollars a year sending their kids to some of […]
Sunset Extension Doesn’t Even Pass Ralston’s Muster
Democrats, and some Republicans in the state Assembly, would have you believe that extending the 2009 tax hikes scheduled to sunset on June 30th is not a tax hike. Well, that dog won’t hunt. If Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston, who fervently believes Nevada needs higher revenue, ain’t buyin’ it, no one will: “Most […]
We Will if They Will
Las Vegas SUN columnist Jon Ralston put out this tweet on Friday: “Hey, NV media tweeps, let’s agree, as @schwartznews 1st pointed out, D tax increase is $1.2B. $300M is additional revenue from projections.” Fair enough. Tell you what: I’ll stop saying the Democrat tax hike is $1.5 billion when the other side stops claiming […]
About that GOP Anointment Process
Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki made what I think was a tough but good decision not to throw his hat into the free-for-all Ballot Royale for the CD2 special election. But I found this particular paragraph in his official announcement particularly interesting: “I firmly believe that political parties have a role in elections and I fully […]
Another University Jerk Blames Sandoval for Glick’s Death
Another propagandist for Hyperbole U weighed in last week on UNR President Milton Glick’s death, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Gov. Brian Sandoval and his reasonable, balanced budget. “The recent death of President Glick at UNR, which was partially attributed to the tremendous stress he was under, (my emphasis) reminds us that […]