Nevada has spent only three-quarters of its allocation.
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Capitalizing on global warming alarmism, Washington lawmakers are debating how much new tax revenue they can drain from rich and greedy corporations — and thus, indirectly, impose on our gas and electric bills — by punishing those who generate the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
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President Obama pushed all sorts of new health insurance regulations in his address to lawmakers this month. He said insurers “will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime.” He said Congress would “place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses” and require insurers to cover “routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies.” All this on top of a federal mandate that every American purchase health insurance or pay a steep penalty tax.
ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — is stinking up Washington.
In his keynote address at the Nevada Press Association’s annual convention in Winnemucca last weekend, retired state archivist Guy Rocha summed up the current economic crisis with an ominous assertion.
If Democrats remain mystified by “tea parties” and other recent expressions of outrage against Washington, they ought to look no further than what their own are trying to pull in Massachusetts as a perfect example of why many Americans are fed up with politicians and politics.
California has enacted strict mandates for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, despite the fact there’s little reason to believe this will have any impact on “global warming.” And needless to say, “green” California wants no part of the only major developed energy technology that emits no carbon gases — nuclear power.
The problem with taxing wealth is that tax revenues tend to drop — or at least grow more slowly — when times are tough. If members of the taxpaying peasantry get laid off or are cut back to part-time wages, they’re going to reduce their spending across the board. No matter what your strategy for diverting part of those revenue streams, tax revenues are going to falter, just as a hungry cow gives less milk.
Henderson’s top appointed officials have long known where they stand with their immediate supervisors, the members of the City Council. But their ultimate bosses — taxpayers — have been kept in the dark.
Nothing empowers the agitators for higher taxes and ever more government programs than best-worst rankings. Bad news is the best kind of news for these politicians and special interests, who frequently misrepresent the flawed conclusions of these lists to claim that life in Nevada would be so much better if only we seized more wealth from the private sector and gave it to our warmhearted bureaucracies.
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