All posts tagged "Taxpayer Protection Pledge"

  • Politics
    How Big Government Tax-hikers are Like Disgusting Stale Popcorn

    Pledge signers shape which policy proposals actually get presented (Victor Joecks, NPRI) – “Shaping the path,” a term used by brothers Chip and Dan Heath in their book Switch: How to change things when change is hard, describes how environmental factors change people’s behavior — often without conscious recognition. The Heaths describe an...

  • Opinion
    The Power of the Pledge compels you!

    (Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Las Vegas Valley Tea Party President Mary Rooney was kind enough to...

  • Opinion
    Why the Taxpayer Protection Pledge has such predictive power

    Nothing is more effective in identifying which lawmakers will honor their word on taxes (Victor Joecks, NPRI) – In their book Switch: How to change things when change is hard, brothers Chip and Dan Heath identify three factors that influence how individuals make decisions — willpower, emotions, and situation. The Heaths use the...

  • Politics
    Name that Terrorist…

    (Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – The woman seated next to me in this picture is an accused...

  • Opinion
    Politicians lie, but when it comes to the Tax Pledge the numbers don’t

    (Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Liberals and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) hate the Taxpayer Protection Pledge with,...

  • Politics
    Jon Ralston’s “Dimwits”

    (Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Perhaps the only thing Jon Ralston, Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger-with-a-taxpayer-subsidized-TV-show, hates worse than me, conservative Assemblywoman Michele Fiore and Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald combined is the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. And I guess it’s understandable. The vast majority of candidates for public office who sign the Pledge,...

  • Opinion
    Letter: Time To Reduce Nevada Sales Tax

    (Lynn Muzzy) – In his August 2 “Silver State Confidential” alert, Chuck Muth said he would no longer work to elect Republican candidate who refuses to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, stating, “I got burned BADLY taking the verbal word of Sen. Bill Raggio in the 2008 campaign that he wouldn’t raise taxes,...

  • Politics
    Wheeler Challenges Opponent Kite to Sign Taxpayer Protection Pledge

    (Gardnerville, NV) – March 19, 2012 – Jim Wheeler, Republican candidate for Nevada Assembly District 39, released the following statement. During the 2011 Nevada Legislative Session, while I was at the Legislature lobbying against new taxes, Assemblyman Kelly Kite, the incumbent, voted to extend the $620 Million in ‘sun-setting’ taxes. Now, Governor...

  • Politics
    Nevada AD9 Candidate Seaman Inks Taxpayer Protection Pledge

    NN&V Exclusive (Phil Perine) – The January meeting of the Siena Conservatives provided the forum for AD9...