FATHER OF KIRNER TAX HAS A
COW
In a
spleen-venting, p*ss-and-vinegar letter-to-the-editor complaining about my
Kirner Tax column published in the Nevada Appeal, Gumby Assemblyman Randy “Kirner Tax” Kirner (R-Kirner
Tax), father of the Kirner Tax (www.KirnerTax.com),
wrote…
“Bottom-line, his (Chuck Muth’s) opinion page missive is political and lacks respect for the legislative process, my colleagues, myself and most especially you the reader as he tries to bully us with his political agenda.”
Well,
um, duh. My weekly Nevada Appeal column
is a political column. I don’t write
about travel, food or sports; I write about politics. That’s what makes it, um, political.
Secondly,
I have a lot of respect for the legislative process. Problem is, Kirner
attempted to circumvent the will of the people themselves by passing the buck
and kicking the can with his scheme to get the members of the Washoe County
Commission to approve a tax hike instead of getting 2/3 of the Legislature to
pass it.
Thirdly,
if by “colleagues” Kirner is referring to his gaggle of moderate Republicans
who regularly wipe their feet on the Republican Party platform and sell us out
to the Democrats for a handful of magic beans because they’re too afraid or too
incompetent to act like a true opposition party…then, yeah, guilty as
charged.
