Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie (D-Reno) is the Legislature’s most liberal member. In her years in office, Leslie has promoted one big-government, nanny-state program after another while supporting the never-ending blob-like growth of existing government programs. When it comes to government, Sheila Leslie likes it, she loves it, she wants more of it. Continue reading »
I swear, when it comes to tax hikes, this Jim Gibbons fella is all over the map. Continue reading »
For four months now, “elite” members of the Legislature have been meeting privately and secretly to not only devise a tax hike proposal to be dropped in the final two weeks of the session, but a Madison Avenue-like way to sell it so voters won’t get too mad at them. Continue reading »
In trying to defend the indefensible tax hike her party is now spearheading in the Nevada Legislature, Assembly Higher Taxation Chairman Kathy McClain (D-Las Vegas) actually had the brass to tell the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday, “We are in a hole that we have to get out of right now.” Continue reading »
Here might be the best damned advice conservatives will get all year…. Continue reading »
As we hear the ‘dialog’ about government-controlled health care for all, please note that the Nevada legislature declined this session to offer Nevadans a chance to purchase a basic package of health care that would have been more affordable than the packages currently available. AB 439 was snuffed at the first deadline for bills to be voted out of committee, having received scant attention. Continue reading »
Democrat Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas) is trying to make a gigantic hike in the jobs tax more palatable by sweetening the pot for “three-quarters of Nevada’s businesses” by reducing their jobs tax rate. Her scheme is total BS, will kill more jobs, delay the state’s economic recovery and do nothing more than allow government to grow in the middle of a recession while everyone else in the private sector is tightening their collective belts. Continue reading »
Republicans in Nevada are beaten, despondent and pretty much worthless as an opposition party – especially in the Legislature. Democrats gleefully cheer the party’s fallen fortunes and write obituaries in letters-to-the-editor almost every day. The GOP, they declare, is as dead as Yucca Mountain. Continue reading »
“Governor Gibbons has presented the Legislature with a budget that is balanced and does not raise taxes,” declared a press release from the governor’s office on Wednesday.
That’s a lie. The governor’s budget includes a whopping $232 million room tax increase.
Legislators have proposed QUADRUPLING the fine on new residents who don’t re-register their car promptly. Supporting the idea is Nevada’s “First Nanny,” state Sen. Dennis Nolan. “There are six cars on my street and they’re still not registering their cars no matter what I tell them,” Nolan complained to the Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday.
Wanna have a little fun? Picture in your mind a little troll stomping his feet and waving his arms in anger while bleating out Sen. Nolan’s whine. Unfortunately, that image isn’t too far from the reality. Small-minded legislators such as Dennis Nolan think of themselves as our overlords and just can’t understand why we don’t listen to them. After all, they know what’s best for us, don’t they?
