Citizen Outreach PAC launched a new online petition yesterday afternoon to all 63 members of the Nevada Legislature urging them to vote “no” on any proposal to put a new tax hike on the ballot without going out and collecting signatures for such a measure the way the rest of us have to. In response, I received the following from Assemblyman Bob Beers (R-Henderson):
“Be assured I will not be voting for a tax hike, regardless of the pressure applied toward me. If my fellow legislators wish to find an innovative way to pay for more roads that does not take any more money out of my constituents’ already overtaxed pockets, that is another thing altogether.”
As they say on Family Feud: “Good answer!”
Here’s another darned good one from Sen. Joe Heck:
“My view is that I was elected by my constituents to make the hard decisions and not turf them back to them. If I decide to vote for a tax increase (not likely), then I will have to face my constituents and justify my actions. I would consider it an abdication of my responsibility to put this to a ballot question.”
On the other hand, there was this response to one citizen from Sen. Dennis Nolan, the Las Vegas Republican who has been leading the charge for this tax hike ballot proposition. Here ‘tis…
“We are currently looking to cut in prisons and release more felons sooner and making cuts in education and medicaid benefits, road improvement and any where else we can. However, I sure believe citizens should have the right to vote for or against any taxes we might have to pay.”
Funny, I don’t remember Sen. Nolan insisting on giving the citizens the right to vote on the 2003 tax hike he felt perfectly comfortable saddling us with. And do you think he could be any more condescending in his absurd suggestion that the only way to pay for highway construction is to let felons out of prison and cut education and Medicaid. As if there aren’t any ceramic Indian pots that could be cut out of the budget first.
This ploy of trotting out the most egregious of spending cuts to justify a tax hike is right out of the liberals’ playbook. You’d expect better from a Republican. But apparently, when it comes to Republican Sen. Nolan, you’d be expecting too much.
I might remind everyone, that Sen. Nolan not only voted for the 2003 tax hike, he has steadfastly refused to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising not to do it again. When is he up for re-election?
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
As I have said for years regarding those we send to Washington, DC–
Put ‘em all in a gunnysack, shake it up, and they all come out the same.
Today’ vote on the non-binding “cut and run, oppose sending more troops to Iraq is you self fullfilling prophecy. Those 17 Republicans, according to the mainstream press made it look like a mandate from the people. It is not. I recently had a conversation with a woman in her early 60’s who told me in broken English and her native language, that she is in fear of the fighting resuming on United States soil if America were to cut and run from the mideast. It appears our most likely allies have not really been invited in any meaningful way to join in the Iraq frey; The Kurds. They are the most sympathetic supporters of democracy, the United States, and Israel. Israel is the only country in the mideast that shares our values with regard to freedom and democracy. It seems to me the President of Iraq, since he seems to get away with it, should publiclly state that the Kurds as well as the Jews were never the subject or victims of genocide. One thing the western world has not yet learned; When your enemy states he wants you dead, he means it. He laughs at your arrogance in attempting to throw money at him, or cease proposing economic sanctions. It’s a condescending gesture by the enemy to buy more time to plot to carry out his original threats. Three thousand dead Mommys, Daddies, and Children dwarfs three thousand dead soldiers from Pearl Harbor. Three thousand unfortunate soldiers deaths in Iraq seemed dwarfed by the number of days it took Hillary Clintion to provide us copies of the Whitewater involvement attributable to her. It’ all perspective, but soldiers deaths who volunteered to fight for our freedom are certainly less dramatic than civilians who were at work in America in skyscapers and their children downstairs in day care. It is not a fair comparison by any standards, except perhaps Muslim extremeists.