Poor Dennis Nolan. The Las Vegas “Republican” state senator is a bigger proponent of raising taxes for transportation than many Democrats. In fact, during the last legislative session, and since, the Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee has floated one tax-hike lead balloon after another. Only now, fiscal reality has apparently finally set in.
Yesterday Nolan announced that today’s scheduled meeting of the Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Study Transportation Issues - otherwise known as the Committee to Find a Way to Raise Taxes No Matter What Gov. Gibbons Says - has been cancelled. Nolan sees the writing on the wall; that there’s no way, no how, that anyone is going to raise taxes for any purpose during the current economic slowdown.
But have no fear. Nolan knows. Nolan knows the economy will bounce back. And Nolan knows he’ll be ready with a new tax hike plan when it does.
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
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