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….
Things We Can Learn from Other Cultures
According to a newspaper report yesterday, “A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence at a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully.” Hmmm. I wonder if the same law applies to state legislators?
Another Sterling Gibbons Appointment
Jim Gibbons is destined to go down in history as the “Governor Who Couldn’t Appoint Straight.”
Shooting for the Tax Hike Record
Legislators were unable to come to a “consensus” Monday on exactly how irresponsible to be in adding spending back into Gov. Gibbons’ budget without having the money to pay for it.
A Bush Conservative
Let’s get this out of the way first: I like Sen. Bill Raggio. A lot. The problem I have with him today is purely political and philosophical, not personal.
Shhhh! Don’t Disturb the Tax Hikers
Perhaps the most outrageous thing to come out of the 2009 legislative session won’t necessarily be the ginormous tax hike we’re all going to be hit with, but the behind-closed-doors secrecy by which that plan was concocted.
RINOs in the Midst
After this disastrous legislative session, Nevada Republicans need to do some serious house cleaning if they’re ever going to be taken seriously as fiscal conservatives again. And that means focusing on replacing some “bad” Republicans in GOP primaries next year before even thinking about going after Democrats.
Greedy Union Crybabies
Las Vegas is building a performing arts center. Whiting-Turner, a highly-respected, experienced and successful contractor, is overseeing construction of the quarter-billion dollar project. But according to a Las Vegas Sun story on Saturday, only “one of every five subcontracting dollars is going to companies with non-union labor.”
Taxing Unwed Mothers on Welfare?
What costs taxpayers more: Health care costs associated with smoking or welfare costs for out-of-wedlock births? Now if Democrats in Nevada’s Legislature are to be believed – and, of course, they’re not – we should increase the tax on cigarettes to reduce the level of smoking and thus reduce the burden on taxpayers. Hey, I […]