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Take From The Rich, Give To The…

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

One of my beliefs that has changed since I first got elected is that I don’t believe government does a good job being charitable. There’s just too much mischief that takes place when strangers get to spend strangers’ money. Davy Crockett approached it from a different angle to come to the same conclusion over […]

Roads Require New Taxes?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

One of Nevada’s transportation experts was profiled in the Las Vegas Sun today.
Here’s what I don’t understand:

Taxes have only gone up in my adult lifetime.
Tax revenue has gone up even more, because many more people live here today than did yesterday, every day, since I moved here in the early 1970s.
Why is our existing, ever-increasing […]

What Democrats & Republicans Believe

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Reprinted from Larry Elder’s column in the Orange County Register:
Republicans believe hard work wins, and government should allow you – to the fullest extent possible – to keep what you earn. Democrats believe that success results from luck, chance and happenstance, and therefore a just government takes from those who have and gives to those […]

Chuck Muth is Scared

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

And I am too.
Seems someone who disagrees with Chuck’s politics has turned him and his wife in for child neglect.
The first story is chronicled here… the second, even scarier story is chronicled here.
I’ve known Chuck and Gia for nearly 20 years and they are fine parents. This is wrong. Carson City child welfare authorities have […]

“Liberals” and “Conservatives”

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

David Damore is a young poly sci professor at UNLV who has never not had a government teat. He recently picked up a side gig writing for the new political blog politickernv.com.
This week, he penned an opinion piece exhorting Nevadans on to raise taxes to fund more teats.
(Nevada) is now experiencing the ugly side of […]

Mortgage Crisis: What Should Government Do?

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

The Las Vegas Sun opinion writers harshly criticized Nevada’s governor today for not doing enough to help homeowners and real estate speculators who are not able to keep up with the payments on their real estate loans. Plus, he’s a Republican.
The Sun correctly notes that Nevada’s government has:

rolled out a Web site that compiles all […]


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