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 […]
Will They Ever Stop Digging?
Gov. Gibbons’ proposed budget from January is no longer balanced thanks to a continued drop in tax revenues during this recession. But that hasn’t stopped legislators from making a bad situation worse.
New Boob Tube Tax
AB 551 suddenly popped up out of nowhere last week. In short, if you have satellite TV the Nevada Legislature doesn’t think you’re paying your fair share in taxes and intends to make you cough up some more dough. According to the language of the bill, satellite TV companies – primarily DishNet and Direct TV […]
Low Taxes Equal New Jobs: Who Knew?
“A California company that sells more than 1 million vehicles a year online purchased an office building in Reno’s South Meadows last week and plans to launch a data center that will employ 85 people,” reports John Seelmeyer of Northern Nevada Business Weekly. “Copart Inc., which is headquartered at Fairfield, Calif., selected the Reno location […]
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
I support Gov. Gibbons’ born-again reverence for the written promise he made to voters last year to “oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes,” but I simply will not let the guy get away with lying about breaking that promise.
Teachers to Kids: Drop Dead!
Now remember, to hear the teachers union airbags tell it, all they’re interested in is the welfare of our kids. So get this opening paragraph from a front-page story in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Conservative Senator Sipping Tax Hike Kool-Aid
Word on the street is that it’s not moderate Republican senators who are pushing aggressively for tax hikes in legislative negotiations right now, but a conservative Republican state senator who has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and works for a construction association when not in session.
When Business Interests Conflict with Public Policy
One of the more dishonest scams going on in the Legislature this year is the practice of pointing to various heavily conflicted “businessmen” and using them as examples of “business leaders” who support higher taxes to fund Nevada’s non-essential government services – such as UNLV’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion ($800,000….priceless!).
It’s the Spending, Stupid
A column by Nicole Gelinas this week in Forbes.com compares traditional high-tax “old” states such as California and New York to what has been traditionally low-tax “new” states such as Arizona, Florida and Nevada which are now facing budget problems.
Another Whopper by the Tax Hike Crowd Exposed
A new report by the Nevada Policy Research Institute reveals that Nevada “spends more than you think” on K-12 education.
The Freedom Budget
The loudest shrieking from the Left over Gov. Gibbons’ proposed budget is over how they claim it will destroy higher education, short-change lower education and….kill people. No, seriously. Democrat Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley actually said we have to raise taxes or people will die.
What Part of Plain English Doesn’t Gibbons Understand?
Good grief, here we go again.
A Slow Uncomfortable Screw
Here it comes. The big 2009 Nevada tax hike is right around the corner. Legislators need only to put the finishing touches on their big con and then….whammo!! One of the final pieces of the set-up was put in place on Monday.
Just Like B.O.
Our good friend and former Nevada GOP executive director Dan Burdish noticed an absolutely priceless item in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal. The first paragraph reads: “A voter registration drive last year illegally required canvassers to meet quotas to keep their jobs and resulted in thousands of ‘garbage’ registrations gumming up Clark County voter rolls, officials […]
The Responsible Budget Alternative
The Economic Forum said Friday that the state can expect enough revenue over the next two years to afford about $5.1 billion worth of government, which is about a billion dollars less than Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed in his budget last January.
The Moose is Loose
Democrat Ways & Means Committee Chairman Morse “Moose” Arberry is pushing a bill that would force his bank to extend him more time before they foreclose on two of his properties. In the lawsuit, Arberry says he’s suing his bank because, get this, it expects him to actually pay the full amount he owes them.
Conflictapalooza
Let’s see…..