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 […]
Bill Watch
A pair of good conservative bills were introduced in the Nevada Legislature by Monday’s submission deadline.
nolan Knows the Nanny State
“Dennis, I hope you are not party to this obscene nanny state bill, that puts us one step closer to an absolute controlled POLICE STATE!!!” wrote Matt Walsh in an email to his state senator, dennis nolan, over a measure to make not wearing a seat belt a primary offense in Nevada. “I do support […]
Mr. Smith on Goober & the Porkulus
Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith has inked a pair of back-to-back political gems this week.
Burns Baby, Burns
In response to my call for Gov. Jim Gibbons to resign last week, gubernatorial communications director/press secretary Dan Burns had this to say to Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Molly Ball:
The Mis-Adventures of Li’l Nate
Some guy named Nathan Taylor wrote an email to legislative Republicans yesterday blasting me over my call for Gov. Gibbons to hand the keys to the Governor’s Mansion over to Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki. Nathan who? Oh, wait. I remember that little whelp.
Some are Created More Equal than Others
“All but four members of Gov. Jim Gibbons’ staff will make a higher salary next fiscal year than what the Legislature approved for the current fiscal year, despite Gibbons’ proposal for all state workers to take a 6 percent pay cut,” reports Anjeanette Damon of Inside Nevada Politics.
Ah, What a Tangled Web He’s Weaved
According to Jon Ralston’s Flash e-newsletter, Gov. Jim Gibbons did an interview with Channel 8’s Gary Waddell in Las Vegas in which he said this about the teachers union’s 3 percent room tax hike bill: “I would never agree to being forced by a special interest group to earmark a certain amount of money for […]
Is There a Doctor in the House
Move over Joe the Plumber. Meet Joe the GOP Gubernatorial Candidate.
Nolan Knows, and Loves, Big Brother
“Real ID will not do anything to make us more ‘secure’, ‘safe’, or anything else,” wrote Leonard Foster to his state senator, dennis “the menace” nolan recently. “I oppose Real ID and further government intrusion. We have more than enough socialist/communist programs in our lives now. We need to get rid of these, not add […]
Dogs Playing Poker
“Two of Southern Nevada’s ‘big three’ cultural institutions – the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Ballet Theatre – are fighting to survive, and the third, the Las Vegas Art Museum, has closed indefinitely,” notes the Las Vegas Sun in an editorial today. “Last month, after 59 years of showcasing area artists’ creativity, the Las […]
Bank on It
Heritage Bank of Nevada, with five branches in northern Nevada, just turned down $8.6 million in strings-attached “bailout” money from President Obama, with bank President Stan Wilmoth telling the Reno Gazette-Journal that they are “a community bank with local control and don’t want the federal government to dictate terms to our customers.”
Headline Bias, In the News
Legislative Democrats conducted a pair of dog-and-pony “town hall” meetings in Reno and Las Vegas yesterday to discuss the budget. The headline about the event in the Reno Gazette-Journal this morning reads: “Many at Reno’s state budget hearings call to raise taxes.”
Stop Digging!
The problem with the Nevada Legislature is that legislators keep adding new feel-good program after new feel-good program without regard to how we, the taxpayers, are gonna pay for ‘em. That’s why we’re in the fiscal mess we’re in today. And you’d think the severity of the mess we’re in today would cause legislators, at […]