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The margins tax has been around for awhile.
It was proposed by Democrats in 2011, and the teachers union qualified its proposal last year.
If you are involved in Nevada politics, even tangentially, you know what it does. This is especially true for lawmakers, who cravenly ignored the ballot question this year. (To be fair, this was mostly the fault of Democrats, who didn't want to bring it to a vote and put their members on record or propose an alternative. Most Republicans would have been...
Good morning, everyone. As the horrific events unfolded Mondayin the nation’s capital, with social media displaying its inadequacy to provide alacrity and accuracy, how depressing was it to see the reflexive reactions on right and left? Gun control!!!! Enforce gun laws!!!! Really, dear Flashees? Is every tragedy simply an opportunity for some to exploit for a political agenda? Depressing.
I moderated a panel Monday before the Turnaround Management Association, which is a very conservative group...
President Obama told GOP senators he would authorize bombing Syria "because we think we can get away with it," Sen. Dean Heller said last week in a wide-ranging interview in which he first said he would not shut down the federal government but then said he would not vote for a budget that contains Obamacare.
Heller's comments came Friday evening during an interview on Vegas PBS' "Nevada Week in Review" in which he also said the left is "all for" bombing Syria and half of Democrats want to shut...
Good morning, everyone. Anyone else out there have nightmares after the latest, most harrowing installment yet of “Breaking Bad,” surely one of the greatest television shows? It’s almost as if creator Vince Gilligan is out to maximize our suffering before the bitter end two episode hence. Or perhaps he simply wants us to look at our own lives and realize it could be worse. Or, in my case, realize whatever depredations I come across in the Nevada political world, at least there is no analogue to...
Should the U.S. intervene in Syria?
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Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The Democrats’ unprecedented cowardice
2. The Weekly Insiders on the margin tax, including chances of a deal with the teachers and predictions of a final margin
3. A quintet of premium nuggets: Who’s behind the new anti-union effort, a split GOP (again), Flores in or out, Labor’s challenge in ’14 and Lowden-McDonald love affair.
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I tasked my Weekly Insiders this week with looking at the margin tax as well as a telescopic gaze at what the...