Sunday, January 31, 2016

NEVADA NEWS & VIEWS 01/31/2016

LAS VEGAS NO-TAX-HIKE RAIDERS

I’m onboard with building a new stadium (possibly landing us the Oakland Raiders NFL team) between UNLV and the Strip…providing it does NOT result in a tax hike, either on the people of Nevada (we’re Taxed Enough Already especially after the last session of the Legislature!) or our tourists. 

After all, taxation without representation was something our Founders fought against long before Al Gore even invented football.


We already have a pot of gold accumulating every year from taxes on tourists through the existing room tax.  That money could and should be diverted to building the new stadium rather than going to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) for an expansion of the convention center.

“If fully funding the stadium requires scaling back the convention center expansion,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal editorialized on Sunday, “then lawmakers and local officials should do it.  A room tax increase, or any tax increase, should be the last option on the table.”

Knowing how lawmakers love to raise taxes, especially this shameful crop of Republican lawmakers in office today, it’d be best to just take that option COMPLETELY off the table now.  

Cheers.

Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Publisher / Irritator-in-Chief

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, HON!

Today is my 22nd wedding anniversary.

Congratulations for me; sympathy for Gia is appropriate!

Wedding Pic 2

Off the coast of Waikiki, January 31, 1994

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NEVADA NEWS & VIEWS


TAX PLEDGE WATCH

My e-pen-pal Durk Pearson of Parts Unknown, Nevada sent a suggestion this week…

Highlight in our reporting which candidates for office have signed and which ones have not signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge so voters know and can pressure candidates on this issue when they come a’callin’.

It’s a great idea.  And in that spirit, in the GOP primary for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District here are the known candidates who HAVE and have NOT signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge as of this date…

Danny Tarkanian – HAS signed
Andy Matthews – HAS signed
Michele Fiore – HAS signed
Michael Roberson – has NOT signed
Annette Teijeiro – has NOT signed

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