Friday, September 26, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 09/26/2014

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.

Henry Kriegel

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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