The Economic Forum will meet tomorrow and tell legislators how much money they’ll have to work with in passing a budget for the next two years. It’s expected that projected revenue will be lower, meaning the government will need to do a little more tightening of the belt. Unless, of course, they insanely decide to raise taxes instead. Which is exactly what a number of legislators intend to do.
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After famously breaking his Taxpayer Protection Pledge by including a $292 million room tax hike in his budget last January – and then failing to veto it after it was passed by the Legislature – Gov. Jim Gibbons is showing signs that he’s rediscovered his “inner conservative.”
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Back in January, Gov. Jim Gibbons introduced a balanced budget of around $6.2 billion, with a $292 million room tax hike included. And Democrats, not to mention several “Specter” Republicans, have been squealing like stuck pigs (with and without the flu) ever since.
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Assembly Bill 229 would require cigarette manufacturers to sell only “fire-safe” cigarettes – an oxymoron if there ever was one – in Nevada beginning next year.
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Make no mistake, state Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) is still the Senate Majority Leader – it’s just a bi-partisan majority that he’s leading in this final month of this legislative session. Let me explain.
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A compendium of responses to Sen. Arlen Specter switching parties…
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“Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right,” declared U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (RINO-PA) today. “I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.” As such, Specter announced that he was switching parties and will run for re-election next year as a Democrat.
Oh, puh-lease. Specter’s political philsophy has ALWAYS been more in line with the Democrats than Republicans. It’s not that the GOP has moved too far to the right; it’s that Specter has always been too far to the Left. Indeed, he was one of only three Republicans in the entire United States Congress who voted for Obama’s “spendulus” package.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Arlen!
“The Electoral College seems useless today simply because no one has bothered to use it,” writes Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Vin Suprynowicz in opposition to AB 413 which would require that Nevada’s five electoral votes go to whomever wins the popular vote in future presidential elections.
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Christine Clark, UNLV’s Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, has been secretly working on a document titled, “Policy on Bias Incidents/Hate Crimes” deep in the bowels of the Maryland Parkway campus, mad-scientist-like, and students and faculty of the taxpayer-funded school of “higher” education have been scared sh…um, witless over what might be in the document.
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Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief-of-stuff, says to never let a crisis go to waste. So it should scare us to death that the Obama administration today declared a “public health emergency” over the outbreak of swine flu.
Five’ll get you ten the administration will now use this “crisis” to promote some new socialist scheme, probably nationalized health insurance. So be afraid. Not of the swine flu, but swine politicians who leap at the chance to use every crisis to further erode liberty and freedom in our country.