Instant Recall
Based on campaign promises made in the Republican primary last year, word on the street is that conservative activists in Washoe County are thinking about launching a recall effort against Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio (R-Reno) the minute he, as expected, votes for the billion dollar hike sometime this week.
Hide Your Wallet and Grab the Vaseline
The details are in all the papers, so let’s just summarize a few points about the Legislature’s BILLION DOLLAR TAX HIKE proposal which has finally been revealed to those of us who are about to get screwed by it.
Buget Bull
To provide a little more perspective to those of you foolish enough to buy the notion that the Legislature has already “cut to the bone” and, therefore, has no choice but to raise taxes, consider the following.
The Pod People are in Carson City!
Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie (D-Reno) is the Legislature’s most liberal member. In her years in office, Leslie has promoted one big-government, nanny-state program after another while supporting the never-ending blob-like growth of existing government programs. When it comes to government, Sheila Leslie likes it, she loves it, she wants more of it.
Gov. Two-Face vs. Spiderman
I swear, when it comes to tax hikes, this Jim Gibbons fella is all over the map.
Are Nevadans as Stupid as Legislators Think?
For four months now, “elite” members of the Legislature have been meeting privately and secretly to not only devise a tax hike proposal to be dropped in the final two weeks of the session, but a Madison Avenue-like way to sell it so voters won’t get too mad at them.
Digging Through the Budget Bull
In trying to defend the indefensible tax hike her party is now spearheading in the Nevada Legislature, Assembly Higher Taxation Chairman Kathy McClain (D-Las Vegas) actually had the brass to tell the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday, “We are in a hole that we have to get out of right now.”
Leadership Starts with Us, Not Them
Here might be the best damned advice conservatives will get all year….
Dems Snuff Out Cheaper Health Insurance
As we hear the ‘dialog’ about government-controlled health care for all, please note that the Nevada legislature declined this session to offer Nevadans a chance to purchase a basic package of health care that would have been more affordable than the packages currently available. AB 439 was snuffed at the first deadline for bills to be voted […]
Buckley’s Snake-Oil Tax Cut
Democrat Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas) is trying to make a gigantic hike in the jobs tax more palatable by sweetening the pot for “three-quarters of Nevada’s businesses” by reducing their jobs tax rate. Her scheme is total BS, will kill more jobs, delay the state’s economic recovery and do nothing more than allow […]
The Nevada GOP Dream Team
Republicans in Nevada are beaten, despondent and pretty much worthless as an opposition party – especially in the Legislature. Democrats gleefully cheer the party’s fallen fortunes and write obituaries in letters-to-the-editor almost every day. The GOP, they declare, is as dead as Yucca Mountain.
Gibbons Truth Squad
“Governor Gibbons has presented the Legislature with a budget that is balanced and does not raise taxes,” declared a press release from the governor’s office on Wednesday. That’s a lie. The governor’s budget includes a whopping $232 million room tax increase.
The Car Troll
Legislators have proposed QUADRUPLING the fine on new residents who don’t re-register their car promptly. Supporting the idea is Nevada’s “First Nanny,” state Sen. Dennis Nolan. “There are six cars on my street and they’re still not registering their cars no matter what I tell them,” Nolan complained to the Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday. […]
Heidi, Heidi, Heidi…Oh, No
Well, the 2009 Legislature is almost finished, but not before Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert sent out her second (or maybe third) press release of the entire session. Unfortunately, she’d have been better off just leaving well enough alone.
All About Dann Lewis
Dann Lewis loves Dann Lewis.
Homeless Figures Don’t Add Up
The headline of the story in Tuesday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal read, “Job loss, foreclosure listed as primary reasons people end up on streets.” Yep, another “homeless” story.
Stage for Big Tax Con Almost Set
Legislators finished crafting their alternative budget yesterday with an agreement on how much not to cut the bloated higher mis-education budget. Which means the final figures for the epoch 2009 Battle of the Budget are almost in place. Here’s pretty much the playing field for Final Taxpayer Jeopardy….