MUTH'S TRUTHS - The Flat-On-Your-Back Tax
Posted: 23 Jan 2009 11:44 AM CST
Nevada state Sen. Bob Coffin (D-Las Vegas) announced yesterday that he
would entertain the notion of holding hearings before his Senate
Taxation Committee on proposals to legalize and tax prostitution in
areas of the state - including Las Vegas and Reno - where it is
currently illegal. "(Prostitution is) going on now," Coffin explained,
"unregulated and unsafe. I have not decided about whether or not I'd
support the legalization and control of it in urban areas, but I think
it's an idea worth entertaining." Finally, a "broad"-based business
tax we might be able to support!
College Republicans Refuse to Be Used
Posted: 23 Jan 2009 11:44 AM CST
While University Chancellor Jim Rogers and other university system
staff are stirring up student unrest on campus to fight against
necessary budget cuts in the Nevada System of Higher Education, UNLV's
College Republicans are refusing to play the role of "useful idiots."
Instead, they're distributing a flyer pointing out egregious examples
of "wasteful spending" at UNLV - including that $15,000 desk sitting
in President David Ashley's office.
The CR's are also highlighting the very lucrative salary and benefits
enjoyed by UNLV basketball coach Lon Krueger - an issue we raised here
in News & Views some months ago. Their flyer notes that Kruger makes
more than Barack Obama and provides details of his rather sweet deal
at the university.
* $205,000 base salary
* $415,000 Media Appearance Fees
* $337,500 Public Appearance Fees
* $325,000 Completion Bonus
* Membership in a golf country club
* Two (2) automobiles, including liability, collision and
comprehensive insurance
These crazy, mixed-up kids actually had the audacity to ask on their
flyer, "He doesn't make enough to pay his OWN INSURANCE?"
Nice to see that some of our youth aren't mindless drones who believe
the world owes them something. There may be hope for our republic
after all.
WWCGD: What Would a Conservative Governor Do?
Posted: 23 Jan 2009 11:36 AM CST
Last November, shortly after Barack Obama cleaned John McCain's clock
at the polls, many of the nation's governors packed up their tin cups
and paraded to Washington seeking a federal handout along with Wall
Street and the Big Three. Not every governor, however, participated in
this unseemly trick-or-treat beg-a-thon. Conservative Republican Gov.
Mark Sanford of South Carolina, for instance, refused to debase
himself and his state in such a manner.
"I find myself in a lonely position," Gov. Sanford wrote in the Wall
Street Journal ("Don't Bail Out My State") on November 15. "While many
states and local governments are lining up for a bailout from
Congress, I went to Washington recently to oppose such bailouts."
Gov. Sanford - a serious potential GOP presidential candidate in 2012,
by the way - noted that Washington itself is already short on cash and
would have to borrow the money to bail out states. "There's something
very strange about issuing debt to solve a problem caused by too much
debt," he wrote.
Sanford also noted the basic unfairness of rewarding states which have
been fiscally irresponsible at the expense of states which have been
fiscally prudent, pointing out that federal bailouts will allow "bad"
states to continue their unsound fiscal policies rather than
dramatically reform them.
And perhaps most importantly, Gov. Sanford pointed out that previous
bailouts and "stimulus" schemes haven't fixed the problems and a
federal bailout of the states won't be any different. "We've already
unloaded truckloads of sugar in a vain attempt to sweeten a lake,"
Sanford wrote. "Tossing in a Twinkie will not make the difference."
Ah, what a difference a conservative governor makes.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons - fresh off of
breaking his promise to the citizens of Nevada that he wouldn't raise
taxes if they elected him - hopped on the federal bailout gravy train
yesterday in a letter to state legislators.
"Recently the United States House of Representatives introduced the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the much discussed and
anticipated federal stimulus package that provides funds directly to
states," Gibbons wrote to the "Honorable Members of the Senate and
Assembly." He then noted that the bill "shows great promise for the
partial or full reversal of many of the difficult but otherwise
necessary spending reductions we are currently discussing."
Oh, brother. Here we go again. Alllll aboard!!
"Assuming the bill is passed by the Congress and signed by the
President," Gibbons enthused, "my administration will immediately
present a supplemental to the budget with recommendations on the
reversal of appropriate spending reductions."
Got that? Gibbons intends to take a federal handout of borrowed money
and use it to keep Nevada from making necessary government reforms and
spending reductions rather than drop his proposed tax hike.
And some people still call him a conservative?
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I'M MAD, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE
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The question is NOT whether Obama is natural-born, we're past that.
The question now is: whether or not the various clauses of the
Constitution are enforcible or are they nothing more than words for
the govt to hide behind.
With ACORN, La Raza, and Ohio Dem officials sitting on 20,000 suspect
voter registrations and other Dept heads releasing Joe the Plumber's
confidential information, this has been an incredibly, uncreditable
election. You'd think there'd be a law somewhere at some level that
would make elections honest. Unfortunately, the SCOTUS has ruled, no
one has standing.
Rich Martin
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