http://muthstruths.blogivists.com Just another Blogivists weblog Sun, 03 May 2009 13:25:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. Coincidentally the Nevada Policy Research Institute released ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/03/the-responsible-budget-alternative/ 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 ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/03/the-moose-is-loose/ Let’s see….. So far this session we’ve seen one Democrat state legislator push legislation which would ban a competitor of the auto repair shop where he works; another Democrat push legislation for a mass transit project which would greatly increase the value of property he owns; and this week we learned ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/03/conflictapalooza/ 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. Barry Fadem, ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/03/the-american-way-is-not-american-idol/ 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 ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/02/sebelius-makes-outrageous-accusation/ 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 ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/01/still-need-to-clear-the-dead-wood/ 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 ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/01/people-will-die/ 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.” Well, at least the governor HAS an approach and isn’t afraid of putting it on the table. Look, ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/01/wheres-the-democrat-alternative/ 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 ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/05/01/gansert-must-go/ 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. ... http://muthstruths.blogivists.com/2009/04/30/tax-talk/