Doug French
Good Corporatist Citizens
The term “good corporate citizen” was thrown about frequently during last year’s tax tussle in Nevada.
Inclusionary Exclusion
As hopeful homebuyers camp out in front of model home complexes, hoping to be offered the chance to buy new homes, Mayor Oscar Goodman and the City of Las Vegas are following Henderson’s lead and exacerbating the housing problem.
Henderson's Workforce Marxism
Soon if you buy a new home in Henderson, you will have the pleasure of subsidizing your neighbor. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” wrote Karl Marx. And for the new home market, that’s just what the Henderson City Council has in mind.
Abusing Old Hickory
If you’ve gone to your bank lately, you may have noticed that the Federal Reserve System and the Department of Treasury have an all-out advertising blitz in progress touting the new $20 bill. On a small, slick piece of propaganda entitled “The New Color of Money” the nation’s counterfeiting partners in crime—the Treasury and the Fed—point out the many reasons that the new twenties are supposedly “Safer. Smarter. More Secure.”
The Union Delusion
The latest assailant of Wal-Mart, Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect magazine, asserts that the low-price chain is depriving U. S. workers of a booming new-home market everywhere but Las Vegas.
Babbling Little Girls? Or Markets?
By now, Las Vegas homeowners have received their August bills from the Las Vegas Valley Water District. The Water District has divided its customers into water groups—A through F. Included with the bill is a flashy color-coded glossy card that lists when a homeowner may water his or her lawn, depending on the time of year.
'Free Speech' Doesn't Mean 'Trespass'
Is there an organization more un-American than the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?
Whacking the Working Folks
Governor Kenny Guinn got what he wanted when Assembly Democrats picked up that elusive fifth Republican for approval of the largest tax increase in Nevada history—$836 million. Now the question is: Who pays? Not who pays immediately, but who pays in the long run. The financial punishment has been spread out somewhat, with tax increases on cigarettes, liquor, real estate transfers, gaming, slot license fees and state incorporation fees. New taxes on live entertainment and bank branches were also approved.
Here a Tax, There a Tax, Everywhere a Tax, Tax
The pro-tax lobbyists and legislators in Carson City keep proposing new varieties of tax goulash to pay for the huge increase in state government they hope to inflict upon Nevada citizens. Whether it’s half a billion or a full billion in new taxes, either way it’s huge.
It's the Amount of Taxes
Governor Kenny Guinn’s proposed billion-dollar tax increase has rallied many Nevada freedom fighters of divergent views to work together. All agree that the governor’s attempt to fundamentally change the Silver State from a pro-freedom, pro-business state to a clone of neighboring California—with all the Big-Welfare, Big-Bureaucracy bells and whistles—has to be blocked.
