All posts tagged "Gov. Sandoval’s Bill"

In 2003, a couple of assemblymen cobbled together a coalition of their colleagues to block a tax increase. They held up the session until mid-July when the late John Marvel broke ranks and dissolved the so-called Mean/Fearless Fifteen. (The adjective depended on your perspective.) The $830 million tax increase passed, albeit without...

(Nevada State Sen. Don Gustavson) – I asked in my last newsletter to let me know if you...

(Victor Joecks of NPRI) – Promises to tie spending to reforms and accountability proven false. Nevada got more spending, less accountability: To sell his $1.4 billion tax increase to Republicans in the Assembly and to the general public, Gov. Brian Sandoval promised that unprecedented levels of state spending would be accompanied by reforms...

(Ron Knecht & Geoffrey Lawrence) – This column reviews the new and increased taxes, totaling $700-million per year, passed recently by Nevada’s Legislature at the behest of Gov. Brian Sandoval. This record tax package makes permanent some previous tax hikes (“sunset” taxes) that were originally billed as only temporary measures to help Nevada...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Nevadans all across the state are “fioreous” over the recently passed largest tax hike in Nevada’s history – including the creation of a new gross receipts tax very similar to the one Nevada voters overwhelmingly rejected last November by almost 80 percent! And there are two distinct...

(Ben Botkin of Las Vegas Review-Journal) – It’s a scene that has played out in the meeting rooms of county Republican groups throughout Nevada. Upset Republicans passing resolutions denouncing the more moderate GOP legislators who voted for the $1.1 billion tax package approved by the 2015 Legislature. Such indignation was on full display...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Here’s what’s holding up everybody who wants to repeal the largest tax hike in Nevada history through a ballot referendum… According to the Nevada Constitution… “Each law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, and matter, properly connected therewith, which subject shall be briefly expressed in...

To the editor: Gov. Brian Sandoval’s tax plan is one complete mess. His plan hurts the little guy while providing for special interests. Gov. Sandoval says the plan is for education and the kids. Yet residents continue to pump millions of dollars into the education system in Nevada each and every year...

(Joseph Morabito) – Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) are bad for the Republican Party and America.  RINOs are nothing more than Socialists Lite willing to raise taxes, increase regulations and add to Local, State and National Debt by borrowing to fund Socialist Schemes. We just saw this is the state of Nevada where...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – When liberal blogger Jon Ralston is in high dudgeon over something conservatives are doing, you know conservatives must be doing something “right.” Such is the nascent effort to repeal the largest tax hike in Nevada history, recently passed by the Nevada Legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval…...

(Andy Matthews of NPRI) – We’re down to the final days of the Legislative Session and one thing is clear: Gov. Brian Sandoval is not interested in compromising on three key issues. As he gave his State of the State address, Sandoval laid out three priorities that he actually campaigned against during his...

Assemblyman provides ‘inside baseball’ on pressure facing lawmakers in Carson (Victor Joecks of NPRI) – Gov. Brian Sandoval...