MAKING THE TEMPORARY TAXES PERMANENT?
On Sunday, Las Vegas Sun reporter David Schwartz wrote: “As Democratic lawmakers and Republicans, including Gov. Brian Sandoval, tried to negotiate a deal on Sunday, one sticking point was this: Would the Legislature and governor agree to permanently put taxes passed in 2009 into law, or temporarily extend them for another two years?”
Here’s the governor’s position on any deal to make the tax hikes permanent, per a senior Sandoval adviser: “I can say with complete certainty, not a chance.”
Well, that takes care of that. Next?
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FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR!
The next “star-studded, fun-filled, action-packed” First Friday Happy Hour will be this Friday, June 3, 2011 at Stoney’s in Las Vegas from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Free parking, no cover charge and 2-1 drinks.
This month’s special VIP guests will be new UNLV basketball coach David Rice and 2ndCongressional District candidate Mark Amodei.
First Friday is co-sponsored by conservative talk-show host Alan Stock and and KXNT 100.5 FM/840 AM.
WE DON’T HAVE A TAXING PROBLEM; WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM
My evil alter-ego over on the Democrat side, blogger Mike Zahara, wrote the following on Saturday morning in his WatchdogWag.com blog:
“Has Chuck Muth Passed Away from Shock?: Normally, I get 75 emails a day from my buddy Chuck Muth informing of the evil of all taxes but only two so far on Sandoval’s change of heart on the soon-to-sunset ones!
“The Nevada Supreme Court intervened again and we now have a deal done if these knuckleheads would just accept the inevitable that some GOPers will support this now. Chuckles, I love ‘ya dude, but it’s not the taxes buddy, it’s the spending and what we’re spending tax money on!”
Actually, Mike’s 99 percent correct. It IS the spending. And it IS what we’re spending the money on. That absolutely, positively IS the problem.
But since liberals and Democrats won’t discuss and debate cuts to non-essential ($20 million to dig a hole under I-15 on F Street in Las Vegas?) and illegitimate government spending (such as running its own emergency road service operation in competition with the likes of AAA), or set spending priorities (classroom teachers vs. administrators), the only way toFORCE such a discussion is to cut off government’s food supply….tax revenue.
And that’s why no-new-taxes is so critical in this public policy arena. No-new-taxes is not, as is often erroneously claimed, an ideology in and of itself. No-new-taxes is simply a means to the limited-government philosophical end; because no matter how much money you give to the left, or how many government programs you approve for them….it’s never enough.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
So if you REALLY want to solve the state’s budget problem, give Zahara and I 48 hours, a line-by-line copy of the budget, a box of red pens and two cases of beer (make mine Black Butte Porter with a Jack Daniels chaser).
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AND THE GOOFBALL REPUBLICAN OF THE YEAR AWARD GOES TO….
It seems that every session of the Legislature, Republicans elect one complete goofball who insists on making himself or herself a political target for my perverse pleasure. And we have our winner for 2011: Freshman Assemblyman Mark Sherwood. Come on down!
Sherwood first hit my radar screen a little over a year ago when, as a candidate, he informed me via email that he decided not to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge after conferring with special interest lobbyists and moderate, wishy-washy GOP leaders who support higher taxes who told him not to sign it.
Things went downhill from there.
During this current legislative session, Sherwood – who apparently fancies himself a cross between Karl Rove and James Carville - has been the leading voice of the Capitulation Caucus – Assembly Republicans who have attempted to undermine fellow Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval by pre-emptively negotiating for tax hikes with the Democrats. Indeed, Sherwood has told people that he was negotiating for higher taxes in order to “save” the governor.
And don’t even get me started on his embarrassing appearance a few weeks ago on Jon Ralston’s Face-to-Face program in which he insisted on doing his lame Ross Perot imitation on-camera despite the host’s best efforts to keep the guy from making a complete ass-clown of himself.
Which brings us to this weekend, when Sherwood decided to send the following email to every Republican member of the Nevada Legislature EXCEPT Assemblyman Ed Goedhart…I’m assuming because he knew Goedhart and I work closely together and was afraid Goedhart would forward the email to me. Alas, I got it anyway. Nice try, Mark.
From: "mark@votesherwood.com"
Date: May 28, 2011 8:27:43 PM PDT
Subject: RE: Muth's Truths: May 25, 2011
Date: May 28, 2011 8:27:43 PM PDT
Subject: RE: Muth's Truths: May 25, 2011
Republican
He
Is
Not
Oh?
Chuck Muth is not good for the Nevada Republican Party. We need to collectively reject his bi-polar 'support'. He is not a Republican. He is an opportunist who is far more interested in chasing his next paycheck than truly advancing the conservative cause.
Let's build the state and county parties the right way and reject Idiot Muth and his Jesse Jackson style tactics.
I’m not sure what Jesse Jackson has to do with any of this, but apparently Assemblyman “Einstein” missed a memo. I haven’t been an operative for the Republican Party in over a decade now, and re-registered as an “independent” over four years ago. I don’t claim to be a Republican, nor is it my job to “build the state and county parties.”
If anything, my job is to help cull from the GOP herd certain elected Republicans who are either too liberal or too stupid….or both. And with that in mind, I want to thank Assemblyman Sherwood for volunteering to be my personal #1 GOP target for electoral defeat in 2012.
Sherwood currently represents Republican-friendly District 21 in Henderson. Potential primary challengers are encouraged to send their resume and statement of interest tochuck@chuckmuth.com
SHERWOOD LONE GOP VOTE TO EXPAND POLICE STATE
As if cops don’t already have enough to worry about on the law enforcement front, SB 140 would add to their burden by “prohibiting a person from using a cellular telephone or other handheld wireless communications device while operating a motor vehicle.”
Apparently it’s still OK to use a wired communications device such as a CB radio. The distinction escapes me. And why do we need a new law to make this specific kind of unsafe, distracted driving a crime when we already have laws on the books against unsafe, distracted driving?
Anyway, this new nanny-state, government-expanding, frivolous, non-essential bill passed out of the Assembly today with only one Republican vote: Mark Sherwood.
Go figure.
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HORNE OF CLUELESSNESS ON CCW
If you want to know why our government, especially at the legislative level, is so screwed up, one need only look at who is in charge. For example, the Chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, William Horne, apparently is clueless when it comes to permits to carry concealed weapons (CCW).
Churchill County GOP Chairman James Smack emailed Horne a few days ago voicing opposition to Democrat Speaker John Oceguera’s plagiarized gun bill which removes a cap on the $25 license fee for background checks. Here’s the response Smack got from Horne:
“The language I support provides for the ‘nonrefundable fee necessary to obtain the reports....’ for the background. If you set a cap at $25, and the cost to get the records is $35, then the gun shop owner is stuck making up the difference. That's why I opposed the amendment today.”
Um, as Chairman Smack points out, gun shop owners don’t pay the fees for licensing and background checks; the individual gun owner does. Which means you, not the gun shop owner, will be the one who will get hit with any fee increases. Good grief.
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· Guv adviser Mike Slanker: “No governor has staked so much on education reform. If Gov. Sandoval gets true reforms; it'll be a huge victory."
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