All posts tagged "We Decide Coalition"

(Editor’s Note: Chalk the theme of this column up to the Star Wars trailer aired during last week’s Monday Night Football game…) (Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – The legal machinations we’re now embroiled in over efforts to simply let the people of Nevada vote on the largest tax hike in history has...

(Michele Fiore) – Last month, the We Decide Coalition filed a referendum to repeal the 1.4 billion dollar tax hike that was passed in the 78 sessions. This tax package includes the Commerce Tax that 80% of voters overwhelming disapproved of last November. While there has been some pushback from supporters of Governor...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Upon review of the lawsuit filed a week ago against our tax repeal referendum by friends of Gov. Brian “America’s Worst Governor” SandRINOval’s largest tax hike in Nevada history – including a new gross receipts tax like the one 80 percent of voters rejected at the ballot box...

(Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – So it’s the We Decide Coalition versus the Coalition for Nevada’s Future, then. The We Decide Coalition, led by conservative activist Chuck Muth, is trying to get a referendum on the November 2016 ballot to let voters either reject or affirm the tax package approved by the...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – THE EMPIRE STRUCK BACK Busy day today out of the office today, so I’ll make this short and sweet and get into it in more detail later this week. Bottom line: The PAC set up to defend Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.4 billion tax hike – including the new...

(Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – CARSON CITY — Backers of an initiative petition seeking to quash a $1.4 billion tax package passed by the 2015 Legislature have filed a pre-emptive lawsuit asking a judge to declare that the referendum does not violate the single-subject rule before supporters begin gathering signatures to put it...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – They say a good offense is the best defense. As such and on behalf of the We Decide Coalition – plus three conservative members of the State Assembly who voted AGAINST the largest tax hike in Nevada history (SB 483) in the recently-concluded 2015 legislative session – our...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – In 2009, the Nevada Legislature passed a series of “temporary” tax hikes totaling in excess of $600 million.  The people of Nevada were promised that those tax hikes would expire, “sunset,” in two years. Instead, the Legislature extended those tax hikes for an additional two years in both 2011...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – REJOICE, REPUBLICANS! For the life of me, I don’t understand that angst among some Republicans about the large and growing field of presidential candidates.  Republicans should be celebrating this extraordinary and unique field that will, as always, winnow itself down as time goes on. Consider this roster… The...

(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...

(Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – For a group of conservative lawmakers and activists who’d love nothing better than to circulate a petition to repeal the just-enacted tax increases of the 2015 Legislature, the hurdle of the so-called single subject rule is a high one. You remember the single-subject rule, right? That’s the...

(Riley Snyder, Associated Press) – CARSON CITY — A group of conservative Nevada Republicans are trying to place on the 2016 ballot at least part of a $1.4 billion tax package approved and supported by Gov. Brian Sandoval. State Controller Ron Knecht, Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers and former Assemblyman Ed Goedhart...

(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…...