All the while I’m thinking about my friend’s taxation issues (see the story below) I am roiling inside because yesterday I served as an alternate on the IFC Audit Subcommittee.
We were told that Medicaid, our socialized insurance coverage for the underemployed, overpaid or mispaid $30-million.
Don’t worry, no one will get fired. Heck, you won’t even […]
I received an email today purporting to show a Louisiana lifelong welfare recipient complaining that the system was abusing her. She was shown sitting in a bathrobe, next to a big screen TV, on fine hardwood floors, decorated with plenty of interior designer items, and a narrative that described her as ungrateful for the dependent […]
The Interim Finance Committee today approved expanding the “Senior RX” program into dental and vision benefits - benefits more extravagant than people relying on Medicare receive.
The motion was made to give this to recipients up to 250% of the federal poverty level, which would have eliminated the program’s reserve within two years. The program is […]
I’m not much of a lyricist, though I did write and record a tune called “Red Button Blues” back during the 2003 session. It’s not quite professional quality - I was working at night in the RV with a “Luddite 1995″ special: a 4-track recorder, a decade-old Roland SoundCanvas, three out-of-tune guitars, a single Shure […]
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 […]
SCHIP is the federal program to provide socialized medicine to children whose parents are “underemployed.”
I don’t sit on the Finance subcommittee that manages Nevada’s SCHIP budget, but I remember how badly the state overestimated the number of children who would use the plan. (1998, 2000, 2003, all Review Journal) It wasn’t until the state advertised […]
