Nevada’s original lefty blogger, Brian Greenspun, started off his column in yesterday’s Sunday Sun by noting state tax revenue is down a little bit below projections, though still much higher than last year, with heartfelt woe:
What to do? Oh, what to do? How about cut the budgets for higher education, health care and other places […]
It looks like Nevada’s taxes are going to grow pretty close to population growth and inflation. The problem is that state government spending is budgeted to grow faster than this. So Governor Gibbons did what Governors Miller and Guinn each did, faced with a similar circumstance: ask state agency heads to prepare a plan to […]
One thing about the Internet - it is a treasure trove of backwards arguments, laid bare for the rest of us to shake our heads and marvel at.
Thanks, Gleaner, for amply demonstrating what I’m talking about.
I don’t think this will start a flame war, because I am pretty sure the big G doesn’t read others’ […]
How much more will Nevada taxpayers be required to come up with if Harry overrides President Bush’s veto of the expansion of SCHIP?
The SCHIP expansion legislation also hikes tobacco taxes again. The Heritage Foundation predicts a minimum $6-million hit to Nevada’s tax revenue because the higher price of a pack of cigarettes will result in […]
My old friend Chuck Muth called me a hypocrite in his Internet blog today, getting a few things wrong (such as that the final budget is larger than the one Governor Gibbons first submitted) while contending it is hypocritical for me to both introduce a TASC amendment and vote for the budget during the 2007 […]
The Reno Gazette Journal is conducting an online poll.
Most of their online polls have under 100 votes. This one has over 1,000.
They’re asking if you support Gov. Jim Gibbons’ promise to veto any budget that hikes taxes or omits programs he wants.
Vote Here
Results, and a sampling of other recent RGJ online polls:
Gibbons Veto: 1,105 […]
The Assembly made its first run at removing whole categories of spending from the statutory cap set 25 years ago as a reasonable fiscal restraint measure. Everyone forgot it was there until the staggering Guinn tax hikes, which landed Nevada near the top of the tax-hikes-per-capita ranking for this decade.
