The CBO said that it expects this year’s federal deficit to hit $2 trillion, almost $400 billion higher than the original estimate it released — and Biden boasted about — earlier.
Opinion
“Corruptissima republica plurimae leges,” warned Publius Cornelius Tacitus: “The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.”
To the editor:
A pro-business coalition created to fight organized labor’s card-check campaign has decided, unlike its union foes, to adopt a name that clearly represents its intentions.
As usual, it was initially reported as unmitigated “happy news.”
George Santayana is spinning in his grave. It’s starting to look like Congress learned nothing from the shortcomings of previous “panic” economic bailout and stimulus legislation, as lawmakers rush to repeat their mistakes.
It appears that the sorry situation in Zimbabwe is becoming too much for even the country’s African apologists to tolerate.
In November, a last-ditch effort to slide “cost-of-living” salary increases for federal judges into the auto bailout legislation failed in Congress. That means judges are the only federal workers who won’t get some sort of pay raise in 2009.
Progress comes only incrementally. No one is perfect. Don’t insist on perfection at risk of undoing the incrementally good. Inclusiveness is better than judgmental polarization. Tolerance of disagreement is a good thing.
On Dec. 12, the Clark County School Board voted to move forward with budget adjustments that “will hurt kids,” one member of the panel lamented.
As we cling by our fingertips to the eaves of the old year, before we drop into the vast unknown of the new one, it is tradition to reflect on the past year, as the Review-Journal is doing today by offering our take on the Top Ten stories of 2008 in various categories, everything from sports to business, from concerts to news.
UNR professor Elliot Parker, a teacher of economics, presented his case last week for more tax hikes, without which Nevada will not be able to hire more government employees and give them higher wages.
With Democrats holding a veto-proof majority in the state Assembly, it’s unlikely Republicans can get much done in the lower chamber when lawmakers reconvene next year.
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Las Vegas is now part of an unfortunate club. It’s one of many cities where a viral video has been shot revealing the ruinous results of soft-on-crime policies embraced by Democrats.
CRT adherents don’t see two individuals, they see two representatives of their class. Deobra Redden is Black, so he’s oppressed. Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who’s white, is the oppressor.
As many as 26 percent of American adults — more than 1 in 4 — have some type of disability.
A new Review-Journal feature called “What Are They Hiding?” will spotlight all the bad-faith ways Nevada governments hide public records from taxpayers.