Nevada’s Business Lobbyists are Acting like Hannibal
Lecter
Chuck Muth
April 18, 2015
Here’s the problem…
Liberal tax-and-spenders in Nevada
have been HUGELY successful in persuading various business entities that
the government needs more money. It has
been especially successful in perpetuating the lie that we’re underfunding
education.
No, we’re not.
At almost $9,000 per student, we’re
pumping over a quarter-million dollars into the public school system for each
28-student classroom! And the teacher’s
only getting about $50,000 of it.
That’s not “underfunding”
education. That’s over-funding the
bureaucracy.
Nevertheless, much of the business
community has bought into the “we need more money” propaganda. As such, they’re now cannibalizing each other,
supporting some tax increases as long as they don’t hit their own members.
“Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me.
Tax the fellow behind the tree.”
Gaming wants to tax non-gaming
entities. Non-gaming entities want to
tax gaming. Big companies want to tax
small companies. Small companies want to
tax big companies.
Truckers are OK with raising taxes
as long as it’s not fuel taxes. Everybody
but mining wants to tax mining. Retailers
want to tax your online purchases, and are also OK with a variety of other tax
hikes.
In fact, in their latest newsletter
the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) boasts that it “has agreed with every
revenue increase that the Nevada Legislature has implemented since, and
including, 2003.”
This is something to be proud of?
RAN goes on to assure everyone that
it will support a tax hike as long as it “doesn’t rely on corporate revenue.”
“Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me.
Tax the fellow behind the tree.”
If the business community would
stop trying to screw each other (which really means screwing the consumer,
since we’re the ones who will ultimately pay in the form of higher prices) and
instead unite in opposition to this ridiculous notion that the government needs
more money, all this current tax-hike talk would be stopped dead cold in its
tracks.
United, the government loses. Divided, the rest of us do.
I think it’s time for the business
community to hire some new lobbyists.
Lobbyists who are more interested
in restraining the ever-growing reach of government into the business of
businesses than being a member of the Carson City insiders “club.”
Lobbyists who won’t, as Winston Churchill famously put it, “feed
the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
Lobbyists who aren’t afraid to say “no,”
to say “no” forcefully, and say “no” publicly so the public will know why giving
the government more money is a bad thing.
You see, lobbyists aren’t bad; bad
lobbyists are bad.
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