Elected officials should learn this simple concept
To the editor:
It is simply time to run the state like a business and stop this foolishness about tax increases (Review-Journal, Thursday).
When revenue is down, you cut your overhead and adjust your expenses. There is no magic tax increase bullet for private businesses to cover shortfalls.
If our elected representatives cannot fathom this simple concept, then it is time to replace them with responsible guardians of our tax dollars.
Perhaps a good place to start would be with Morse Arberry, the Democratic chairman of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. This would give him more time to gain a better understanding of personal fiscal responsibility and to attend to his own upside down finances.
As an added benefit, it might also prevent him and his friends in Carson City from conspiring to legislate his personal problems away.
William Taxwell
LAS VEGAS
Leaving Las Vegas
To the editor:
Glad to see that they will be raising taxes in Carson City (Review-Journal, Thursday). I'm sure it's for the children. Nobody is against children, are they?
I'm moving to Montana on June 1. Leaving Las Vegas. Oh yeah.
John Armstrong
LAS VEGAS
Pelosi two-step
To the editor:
I admittedly am not a great fan of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid. In retrospect, however, I am grateful that I am not a California resident and have to watch and listen to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continue to embarrass herself every day.
On Thursday, she danced the Texas two-step in front of the press corps, further embarrassing every resident of the state of California. How this shameful exhibition of Speaker Pelosi's bold-faced twisting of the true aspects regarding her CIA briefings on enhanced interrogation techniques cannot disgust and demoralize every Democratic voter in this country, let alone in California, leaves me to wonder.
This is the leadership of the House of Representatives? By making such a spectacle of herself, Speaker Pelosi reveals that we must all concern ourselves with those leadership capabilities.
No wonder the country holds their congressional representatives in such low esteem.
George Pucine
LAS VEGAS
