WHY I HATE GOVERNMENT: ANOTHER IN A SERIES
On January 22, 2015, I filed a PAC (political action
committee) – “Recall Silbkraus PAC” - with the Secretary of State’s office as
the PAC’s registered agent.
Unfortunately, in listing the name of the PAC I “pulled a
Ralston” and misspelled “Silberkraus” in the “Name of Committee” field - though
it was spelled correctly in the “Purpose” section of the form.
After the typo was pointed out to me, I faxed up an amended
form to the SoS on January 25, 2015. On
it I checked the box titled “Amended Registration.” Why? Because
I was amending an existing PAC registration, not creating a new one.
There was also a box that I checked titled, “Change Name,”
since, well, that’s all I was doing…changing the name to the correct spelling.
Next to the “Change Name” box was a box asking me for the
“Previous Name of PAC.” So I typed in
the name of the PAC previously filed which included the “Ralston.”
Below “Name of Committee” I typed in the correct spelling of
the one word I had initially Ralstonized.
Seems pretty simple and straightforward, no?
No.
On Thursday morning I got a call from some woman in the
Secretary of State’s office who proceeded to advise me that I hadn’t properly
completed the form to change the name of the PAC. She told me I had to fill out all of the
information on the entire form even though nothing was being changed except two
letters in the committee’s name.
I told this woman over and over again that the only thing I
was changing was the name of the PAC, had checked the appropriate box
indicating this was an amended registration not a new registration, and
recorded both the old name of the PAC and the one I was changing it to.
The conversation generally went like this from that point…
“It’s not complete.”
“Yes, it is.”
“You have to fill out
the entire form again.”
“No, I don’t.”
“If you don’t, then I
can’t scan it and post it on the website.”
“If you choose not to post it on the website, that’s your choice. But I filled out everything I need to fill
out.”
At that point she slammed the phone down.
Bureaucrats REALLY don’t like it when the peasants
challenge their authority or the stupidity of their dotted “i’s” and crossed
“t’s” in triplicate insanity…as if we have nothing better to do with our time
than jump through their hoops.
I do. I have this
newsletter to write!
AX THE TAX NOW
Nevada U.S. Sen. Dean
Heller released a statement on Monday…
“A budget that continues to spend wildly out of control and fails to
address Washington’s long-term spending problem is not a credible proposal.
This Administration has failed to recognize that America’s debt crisis is due
to the government spending too much. The President’s plan taxes more instead of
spending less. Far too many Nevadans are living paycheck to paycheck, and
President Obama’s budget does very little to change that. Increasing taxes to pay for out-of-control
spending is no way to function, and it is unfortunate the Administration has
failed to realize this.”
Here’s the thing…
If you replace “President” with “Governor,” “America” with
“Nevada” and “Obama” with “Sandoval,” the statement applies almost
identically.
Again, if a Democrat had proposed the same $1.3 billion tax
hike that Sandoval has proposed, Republicans and business leaders in Nevada
would be screaming bloody murder.
But because Sandoval inconveniently has an “R” after his
name, almost every Republican has gone mute.
TAX PLEDGE ISN’T COMPLICATED
It always amazes me to see how badly the Left doesn’t
understand the plain, simple language of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
It does not, as they would have the public believe, say “No
new taxes.” That was the “Read my lips” promise
offered up by former President George
H.W. Bush.
No, the Taxpayer Protection Pledge sponsored by Americans
for Tax Reform is a promise to the citizens of a state that the legislator will
“oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.”
That does NOT mean efforts at tax reform which are
“revenue neutral” - meaning no net increase in tax revenue to the government.
So, for example, if you want to eliminate the state’s
modified business tax by taxing, say, labor unions, that would NOT be a
violation of the Tax Pledge as long as the revenue brought in from the Union
Tax wasn’t more than the revenue being brought in by the modified business tax.
What part of this don’t you libs understand?
TAKING THE SANDOVAL CHALLENGE
Nevada Gov. Brian
“America’s Worst Governor” Sandoval (R&R-Advertising) has challenged
conservatives to come up with alternatives to his $1.3 billion tax hike.
OK, here’s an idea: Follow the example of Republicans in
Tennessee this week and repeal the expansion of Medicaid. Savings: Giga-millions.
Here’s another idea: Set priorities.
If the governor is so high on, say, spending millions to
combat bullying as part of his big education improvement plan (don’t ask; it
doesn’t make sense to anyone else either), take the money from other less
important or non-essential programs.
Start here: Kill the Agency for Nuclear Projects (ANP). Estimated savings: $5 million.
This office is dedicated to killing the Yucca Mountain
nuclear waste repository which Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has already declared dead, dead, DEAD!
But even if it isn’t, Nevada already has six representatives
in Congress to handle the issue of Yucca Mountain. And if any lawsuits are deemed necessary,
Nevada already has an Attorney General to handle them. So the ANP is duplicative, wasteful and
completely unnecessary. Kill it. And shift that money over to the
anti-bullying program.
Do this line-by-line throughout the governor’s budget and
not only could you fund the governor’s education initiatives without needing a
tax hike, you’ll probably need a tax CUT!
THE FURTHER (MIS)ADVENTURES OF LI’L NATE
Most people don’t know this, but before Nathan Emens…Speaker-of-the-Weak John Hambrick’s political brain and useful idiot for Democrat
legislative candidates…began his career mal-practicing as a campaign manager, he
tried his luck as a professional hypnotist.
Li’l Nate listened to books-on-tape (can’t read very well)
to learn the skill, and practiced for hours at a time on his pet poodle,
Fluffy. Finally, he thought he was ready
to give it a try on a human audience.
A friend of Li’l Nate’s was an elementary school principal
who agreed to let the wannabe-hypnotist try his luck on the entire student body
at an assembly in the school auditorium.
Li’l Nate walked confidently out on stage. He pulled from his pocket a gold watch
attached to a four-inch gold chain. He
held the chain on one end and extended the watch out from his body at arm’s
length. He then began slowly swinging
the watch side-to-side, intoning to the gathered students, “You’re getting
sleeeepy. Sleeeepy.”
And then he dropped the watch.
“Crap!” exclaimed Li’l Nate.
It took the janitor 3 days to mop up the mess!
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“The government shouldn’t have to do more with less. It should do less with less.” – Chuck
Muth, president, Citizen Outreach
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