Nevada Partners bills itself as “a private, non-profit organization that helps unemployed and underemployed individuals develop the necessary skills to become employable.” Others say the organization is nothing but a front group for organized labor, a suspicion seemingly confirmed by the group’s declared mission to match workers with employers “who reward hard-work by […]
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Jim Gibbons has suffered a VERY rocky first 100 days in office, with another shoe seemingly dropping almost daily. You’d have to be living in a cave or visiting from Mars not to see that the start of this governor’s first term has been unusually and uniquely difficult, to say the least. […]
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Agree or disagree with the decision, through thick and thin you have to admit that, whatever else you might say about the guy, Gov. Jim Gibbons…throughout his campaign and his first 100 days in office…has kept his word to the people that he would veto any and all efforts to raise taxes.
It’s what he ran […]
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas) understands the concept of “choice” when it comes to whose tax ox is gored. For example, should average Nevada motorists pay a higher gas tax per gallon of gas…or should we stick a new-and-improved weight-distance tax on the national trucking industry?
Buckley comes down decidedly on choosing to stick […]
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Las Vegas Review Journal columnist Erin Neff writes more about traffic gridlock in her column today, and points to what she considers a light at the end of the tunnel.
“But a better sign of the end to gridlock might actually have appeared last week in Carson City.” Neff writes. “At least, press accounts made […]
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Jim Gibbons is under ENORMOUS pressure to break is campaign promise to “oppose and veto any and all efforts to raise taxes.” And nowhere is that pressure stronger than with regard to SB 141, a measure which would increase “the rate of the tax on transfers of real property in certain counties […]
Posted on April 14th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Eight states have created “Tax Me More” accounts in which tax-and-spendaholics who say we’re not spending enough money on this program or that program can voluntarily kick in more of their “fair share” to the government. Few do; but hey, hypocrisy appears to be a prerequisite for liberals.
Considering how hard Nevada tax-and-spenders are […]
Posted on April 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Assembly Democrats released a comprehensive plan Wednesday (find it here on Jon Ralston’s blog) for meeting the state’s growing highway construction needs. The Assembly Republican counter-plan is expected to be released in the year…2424.
Nah, I’m just kidding. Assembly Republicans don’t HAVE a plan - or even plan to have such a plan. […]
Posted on April 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The Democrats want to raise additional money for highway construction via the car rental tax. Now I just booked a car rental in Las Vegas for later this month. The cost to rent the car for the day is $22.89. The cost of the taxes and fees heaped onto that rental is […]
Posted on April 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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“In a packed legislative committee room Tuesday, the unthinkable happened,” wrote Las Vegas Sun reporter Joe Schoenmann on Wednesday. “Not a single voice was raised against a bill to increase Nevada’s gas tax by 6 cents over the next two years, increase it at a rate tied to inflation thereafter, and to raise other […]
Posted on April 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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