The Economic Forum said Friday that the state can expect enough revenue over the next two years to afford about $5.1 billion worth of government, which is about a billion dollars less than Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed in his budget last January.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Democrat Ways & Means Committee Chairman Morse “Moose” Arberry is pushing a bill that would force his bank to extend him more time before they foreclose on two of his properties. In the lawsuit, Arberry says he’s suing his bank because, get this, it expects him to actually pay the full amount he owes them.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Let’s see…..
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Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Assembly Bill 413 would change the way the President of the United States is elected without going through the messy process of, you know, actually amending the Constitution. If passed, Nevada’s electoral votes would go to whichever candidate won the national popular vote, not necessarily who won Nevada.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by chuckmuth
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On Mitch Fox’s most excellent “Nevada Week in Review” television show on Friday, our good buddy, Bob Beers look-alike and CityLife editor Steve Sebelius had the nerve to say that many of us conservatives were “secretly happy” that the revenue projections laid down by the Economic Forum on Friday were about a billion dollars less than the governor’s original budget proposal because we “hate government” and this will force the Legislature to shrink it.
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Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Gov. Jim Gibbons called the idea of raising taxes in the middle of this recession “foolish” – he’s right – and said he was going to propose cutting government employee pay by more than 6 percent to cover additional revenue shortfalls. But the governor also said he was going to avoid laying off any government employees. That’s wrong. There’s still plenty “dead wood” in the government workforce – including UNLV’s Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. Getting rid of non-essential government employees could mean the remaining essential government employees wouldn’t have to take as big a pay cut.
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by chuckmuth
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In response to the governor’s announcement about government employee pay reductions, Democrat Speaker Barbara Buckley, true to form, squawked about the cuts without offering any alternative. She also defended adding about $72 million of spending back into Gov. Gibbon’s proposed budget – digging the budget hole deeper, as the governor put it – claiming apocalyptically that “people would die” otherwise.
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Posted on May 1st, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Democrats yesterday whined and complained and bitched and kvetched about the governor’s new proposal for higher government employee pay cuts, with Speaker Buckley blasting Gibbons for “taking a slash and burn approach to budgeting.”
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Posted on May 1st, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert is the GOP’s Minority Leader. She’s already voted for, even advocated for, passage of the second largest tax hike in state history this month. And she’s been actively participating “at the table” in secret Democrat plotting to pass yet another ginormous tax hike before the session is over.
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Posted on May 1st, 2009 by chuckmuth
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The Economic Forum will meet tomorrow and tell legislators how much money they’ll have to work with in passing a budget for the next two years. It’s expected that projected revenue will be lower, meaning the government will need to do a little more tightening of the belt. Unless, of course, they insanely decide to raise taxes instead. Which is exactly what a number of legislators intend to do.
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Posted on April 30th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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