The Nevada Republican Party is scheduled to hold its state convention in Reno next weekend, and it’s expected to be the biggest in the party’s history.
As such, GOP Chairman Sue Lowden has pulled out all the stops in an effort to make it a memorable one, including a night-before gala ball, as well as scheduled […]
Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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When you’re bad to the bone, you’re bad to the bone. So it won’t surprise readers of Nevada News & Views that Assemblywoman Francis Allen (R-Las Vegas) doesn’t just stick it to the voters of her district; she’s even sticking it to the florist for her wedding.
According to Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. […]
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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THE ELITIST: “(Sen. John) McCain went to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for major economic addresses this week…but if Hillary or Obama had much to say about that speech, it was lost in the tsk-tsk-tsking over whether Obama is more elitist than a woman who has been driven around in limousines by state troopers and Secret Service […]
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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The Gibbons administration lost two more staffers last week, bringing the total number of folks who have been fired or driven insane by co-Chief-of-Staff Diane Cornwall to somewhere around the number of players on a typical college football team.
In fact, so many staffers have left the Gibbons administration - either voluntarily or involuntarily - purportedly […]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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“A growing number of state politicians are proposing new laws to levy taxes on digital downloads, including music, video, and books, as a way to remedy budget pains,” reports CNET News this week. “Call it the iTunes tax.” OK, here are the odds on which Nevada legislator will be the first to step […]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Legislators last year were sold on a bill (SB 154) which established an advisory committee to study ways to raise taxes for new school construction in Washoe County. Those options would be narrowed down and put on the ballot this November for a thumbs-up or thumbs-down by voters. This was clearly an effort […]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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THE TAX CODE, BY THE NUMBERS: “According to the Tax Foundation, the tax code now comprises 67,200 pages. It takes the average taxpayer 24 hours a year to do his or her taxes, and the average small business spends 52 man-hours a week on taxes. Many businesses now correctly complain that the cost of complying […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Multi-gazillionaire University Chancellor Jim Rogers never stops calling for a state income tax - despite the fact that the people of Nevada are so repulsed by the very idea that they actually passed a constitutional amendment banning any such thing several years ago. But maybe Mr. Rogers is onto something.
Ask almost anyone and they’ll […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “MGM Mirage, the Strip’s largest casino operator is laying off some 440 management employees at both the property and corporate levels, a response to the souring national economy but also part of a corporate belt tightening program begun last year.”
Contrast that acknowledgement of fiscal reality with the State of […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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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 […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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