Typical government hyperbole
May 6th, 2007 . by Mark Warden
Recently in the R-J it was reported that Gibbons is asking the Legislature to cut spending by $118,000,000 in order to meet the REVISED revenues estimate by the Economic Forum, an appointed board that estimates state revenues. Although the estimate is a difficult academic exercise, they almost always overestimate revenues, giving the idiots in Carson City carte blanche to spend all the money that’s expected, whether it’s needed or not.
So when an estimate is actually revised downwards, everyone panics, especially the friends of government employee unions and teachers unions.
Of course nobody bothers to mention that overall spending is up 50% in the last 6 years, but they are only concerned about next year. There’s never any going back to more conservative spending; no, it’s all about the future and the newfangled programs they have in store for the masses.
Budget Watch Nevada has dared to shine a light on this misspending, to unveil the wizard behind the curtain. Go to www.budgetwatchnevada.com to see some easy, common-sense recommendations for cutting government largesse and finding normalcy in state spending of your tax dollars. With April 15 fresh in memory, we should all be hypersensitive to the government’s abuse of your pocketbook to satisfy its special-interest spending urges.
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[…] Mark Warden at Budget Watch Nevada puts up a trio of great posts this week on the goings on in Nevada government. I mention the three posts because they all have a common theme even thought the content is different in each. The theme is the tendency in government and politics to mask what you’re really saying with something that sounds a lot different than what you really are saying. Mark notes in Typical Government Hyperbole, Although the estimate is a difficult academic exercise, they almost always overestimate revenues, giving the idiots in Carson City carte blanche to spend all the money that’s expected, whether it’s needed or not. […]
[…] Mark Warden at Budget Watch Nevada puts up a trio of great posts this week on the goings on in Nevada government. I mention the three posts because they all have a common theme even thought the content is different in each. The theme is the tendency in government and politics to mask what you’re really saying with something that sounds a lot different than what you really are saying. Mark notes in Typical Government Hyperbole, Although the estimate is a difficult academic exercise, they almost always overestimate revenues, giving the idiots in Carson City carte blanche to spend all the money that’s expected, whether it’s needed or not. […]