DOG FOOD SELLER YELPING FOR GOV’T HELP
A pet food retailer in Sparks is complaining about losing
sales to online pet food sellers. And she wants out-of-state online sellers to
charge customers the same sales tax she charges even though the out-of-state
retailer doesn’t use the government services in Nevada that the Nevada
brick-and-mortar retailer uses…such as schools, police, fire, courts, roads,
etc.
“They make it unfair for my business to compete,” whined Kim Hunter, owner of Bag of Bones
holistic (huh?) pet food and pet toys shop, to the Las Vegas
Review-Journal.
Which, if I’m not mistaken, is the exact same thing the
horse-and-buggy folks said about those new-fangled automobiles.
Hunter, and other brick-and-mortar businesses, need to stop
trying to screw taxpayers and looking for the government to bail them out and instead
get with the program, adapt to the new realities of online commerce, and get in
the game. As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
Why can’t Ms. Hunter find a way to sell HER products online?
SILBERKRAUS AIN’T WINNIN’ NO SPELLIN’ BEES
So there’s this Pat
Hickey-Republican candidate for state Assembly who will vote to extend the
“sunsets,” and who knows what other tax hikes that come up if he’s elected to
the Legislature in November, named Stephen
Silberkraus.
Silberkraus, you may recall, is the chap who was arrested
for stalking his GOP opponent, Amy
Groves, in the primary.
Anyway, a complaint was filed against Silberkraus by Groves
with the Secretary of State’s office.
Silberkraus responded and misspelled/misused about a half-dozen words. Such as, “…in as clear a manor as I can.”
“Manor”?
Look, if you’re running for something as important as a
legislative seat and are responding to an official complaint/inquiry, don’t you
think you should be smart enough to at least have someone proofread your
response before submitting it. I mean,
who’s this guy think he is…Jon Ralston?!!
MUTH’S TRUTHS
--> All work and no play?
I don’t think so! Had a blast on
the Party Deck at Coors Field Wednesday night at a welcoming reception hosted
by our friend Jon Caldara of the
Independence Institute at this year’s State Policy Network annual conference in
Denver.
This is me and Henry
Kriegel, deputy state director of Americans for Prosperity in Montana. And this was WITHOUT visiting the local pot
shop!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
Attorney General Eric Holder is leaving…six years too late. It might take a generation or longer to
repair the damage this guy did to our country and our Constitution.
Well, it looks like I’m back to boycotting
Walgreens. One of their pharmacists
pulled out his concealed weapon and used it to defend himself, fellow employees
and customers when two armed dirtbags attempted to rob his store. The whole event was captured on video. Click
here
Alas, instead of thanking the pharmacist, praising his
actions, giving him a raise and maybe even a promotion…Walgreen’s fired him.
Screw Walgreens.
A waiter in Las Vegas has sued Smith &
Wollensky’s restaurant claiming he was forced to split tips with managers.
Hey, if it’s true and that’s the company’s policy then the
answer is to simply quit and not work there.
He has no “right” to set his own employment rules, regardless of what
our nanny-state legislators think.
Government needs to butt out of these kinds of matters…including setting
a “minimum wage.”
Rep. Dina Titus recently expressed
support for restoring the government-subsidized Amtrak railroad service between
Las Vegas and southern California. But
if private developers haven’t been able to figure out how to make such service
profitable, how in the world would government ever figure it out?
If the government really wanted to do
something positive to help tourist traffic to and from Vegas, they really ought
to focus on further widening Interstate 15 so it’s not bumper-to-bumper traffic
for 60 miles every Friday and Sunday night.
“In the three competitive Nevada Senate races
that will determine whether Republicans retake control of the upper house, the
GOP candidates have refused to debate their Democratic opponents,” reports the
Las Vegas Review-Journal. The three:
Sen. Moderate Mike Roberson
(District 20), Patricia Farley
(District 8) and Becky Harris
(District 9).
These are competitive races with credible Democrat
opponents. If the Republicans can’t
handle them in a debate, they have no business running for these seats. Sad. Pathetic.
By the way, who supports taxing out-of-state Internet sales in Nevada? Gov. Brian
Sandoval (R&R-Partners). Senate
Minority Leader “Moderate Mike” Roberson
(RINO). And Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey (RINO).
Of all the things government does that don’t
make sense, airport security ranks at the top of my list.
Coming out of Vegas to Denver on Monday, I had to remove my
laptop from my bag, remove my sports coat, remove my shoes, remove my belt and
remove even the smallest piece of paper in my pockets before a full-body scan
with my legs spread and hands above my head.
Leaving Denver on Friday…none of that. Didn’t even have to take my laptop out of my
bag.
Now how does this make sense?
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“'I'm always willing to compromise, which means moving to
freedom less rapidly than I'd like to.” – Grover Norquist
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