Coffin’s Flat-on-Your-Back Tax
Monday was yet another bill submission deadline, and Nevada’s tax-happiest legislator didn’t miss the opportunity.
Blowing Smoke
Finally, a bill we can support.
Repeal, and Thee Shall Be Saved
The challenge for Nevada legislators this session – at least those not hell-bent on growing government – is to find ways to boost tax revenues to fund truly essential government services without raising taxes in the middle of a recession. And for a tourist-based economy such as Nevada’s, that means looking for new no-cost ways […]
A “NO RINO” Resolution
Some readers have asked for a little help in drafting a potential “NO RINO” (Republican in Name Only) resolution/petition in response to all the elected Republicans who have been supporting tax hikes and others who are helping to raise money for Harry Reid’s re-election campaign. Hey, just call me Mr. Helper. Here’s one slightly edited […]
Winners & Losers in Real Estate Melt-Down
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Existing-home sales rose 5.1% in February, climbing above expectations, but prices plunged again.”
Hello, Mr. Banker…This is Harry Reid
Gaming giant MGM Grand is in deep doo-doo. According to a Las Vegas Review-Journal story on Sunday, the company “faces a potential bankruptcy filing to restructure $13.5 billion in debt.” And, according to the report, MGM Mirage majority shareholder, founder and board member Kirk Kerkorian “and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a close friend, have […]
Gossard vs. Woodward
If Bill Gossard of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board deigns to grace our little state and testify against AB 300 – the “Let Those Who Ride Decide” proposal to repeal Nevada’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law for responsible adults over the age of 21 – at the Assembly Transportation Committee hearing on Tuesday, here’s some […]
Support AB 300
The following letter was emailed to Nevada legislators today. It includes at the end a transcript of testimony given before a California legislative committee a decade ago by a motorcyclist who explains how wearing a helmet didn’t save her life, but ruined it. Very powerful.
Helmet Nannies Head for the Slopes!
On the day-before-the-eve of an Assembly Transportation Committee hearing on Assemblyman Don Gustavson’s (R-Reno) proposal to repeal Nevada’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law comes new calls for a mandatory ski helmet law following the death of actress Natasha Richardson in a skiing accident up in Canada.
Commanding General of the Nanny-State Army
A hearing on Assemblyman Don Gustavson’s (R-Reno) “Let Those Who Ride Decide” bill (AB 300) which would repeal Nevada’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law for adults is scheduled for this coming Tuesday before the Assembly Transportation Committee. And it’s rumored that a bureaucrat named Bill Gossard may testify against the bill at the hearing. Here are […]
Conservatives’ GOP Problem
Richard Viguerie is known as the “Funding Father” of the modern-day conservative movement for his pioneering success in harnessing the power of direct mail fundraising from millions of small-dollar donors in the 1970s and 1980s. So his thoughts on the current predicament conservatives find themselves in should be taken strongly into consideration.
Helmet Stats Just Don’t Add Up
A bill to repeal Nevada’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law was proposed in the 2007 Legislature. At a hearing on the bill, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that “witnesses said the typical traumatic head injury accident costs $2 million over the lifetime of the survivor and 50 such accidents would be expected a year in Nevada […]
Republicans Gone Bad
It’s bad enough that Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons broke his Tax Pledge to the citizens of Nevada by proposing the teachers union’s room tax hike in his budget, and that seven Republicans in the state Assembly – led by Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert and Assistant Assembly Minority Leader Lynn “Bug Man” Stewart – along […]
Economics 101
Economist will tell you that you get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax.
Don’t Let Emotion Trump Reason & Reality
Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert (R-Reno) recently introduced a feel-good bill (AB 234) which would mandate DNA testing for anyone arrested – not convicted, mind you; arrested – on suspicion of a felony.
Another Gibbons Republican Backs Major Tax Hike
Gov. Jim Gibbons signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising to oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes right before proposing the third largest tax increase in the state’s history and then refusing to veto it. Now, apparently following the governor’s lead, GOP Assemblyman John Carpenter, who also signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, […]
Let Those Who Ride Decide
“I disagree completely when government says that because of the number of head injuries from accidents with motorcycles that (a person) should be forced to wear a helmet,” declarethed Ronaldo Maximus many years ago. “I happen to think he’s stupid if he rides a motorcycle without a helmet, but that’s one of our sacred rights […]