So obsessed were Democrats on passing their billion dollar tax hike in time to override Gov. Gibbons’ promised veto that Speaker Barbara Buckley began debate on the final $781 million leg of the bill….before the bill even arrived in her chamber from the Senate. Assemblyman Goedhart reported that the paper was still warm when the bill was handed to him on the Assembly floor. And there wasn’t even time to read it before Buckley forced a vote on it.

Is this any way to run a government?

Of the six GOP state legislators who voted for the tax hike yesterday, four have consistently refused to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge: Sens. Raggio, Rhoads, Nolan, and Townsend.
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The “core group” of “elite” legislators who began meeting privately to discuss the budget all the way back in January have regularly claimed that there was no discussion of tax hikes in those secret meetings.
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On Friday, the Senate voted for the final leg of the billion dollar Raggio Tax Hike, 17-4, including five of the nine GOP votes. The bill now goes to the governor for his veto – and will then come back to the Legislature for a vote to either override the veto or sustain it.
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AB 562 was approved in the Assembly on Thursday by a vote of 34-7. The bill increases government spending by about $700 million dollars over and above what Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed last January, and more than a billion dollars over and above what the Economic Forum projects the state will take in via existing revenues…..meaning huge tax hikes will be necessary to fund this budget. read more »

Earlier this session, the Legislature considered a bill which would make wearing a seat belt a “primary” offense. Janine Hansen of Nevada Eagle Forum explains what that means: read more »

Threats, intimidation, secrecy, dead of night legislating, and changing the rules in the middle of the game. These are the lengths Democrats have sunk to in their effort to pass a billion tax hike.
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As I was walking out the door to drive up to Carson City from Las Vegas yesterday morning, I received a phone call from Wynn Resorts chairman Steve Wynn, whose corporate attorney had sent me an email the night before threatening legal action against me for using a quote about tax hikes culled from an interview Mr. Wynn did on Jon Ralston’s “Face to Face” television show last month.
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I’m driving to Carson City today so I can watch first-hand as certain Republicans vote for the Democrats’ billion dollar tax hike.
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The following automated phone recording is going out to thousands of Washoe County and Carson City citizens this morning…
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