Steven Miller
Boilerplate for Bigger Tax Burdens
Apologists for new schemes to raise Nevada’s sales tax routinely misrepresent the real costs to voters and the state.
When voters in Nevada’s two most populous counties went to vote last November, they found themselves on the receiving end of what is virtually now a boilerplate pitch for ever-higher Silver State sales taxes.
Culinary’s Sinister New Partner
Members of Nevada’s Culinary union have been merged into the Mob-dominated ‘Union from Hell’
For many months now, members of Nevada’s Culinary union have been hearing from their union brass that this year’s merger with UNITE, the big needle trades union, was just what the doctor ordered.
Watershed
An 800-pound gorilla of Nevada politics is dropping weight fast
One thing the election showed is that Nevadans are getting wise to teacher-union tricks.
On Anger
When Howard Dean blew himself out of the presidential sweepstakes this spring, he was doing his best, as all candidates do, to express the essential outlook of his supporters.
Unfortunately for Dr. Dean, he succeeded a little too well.
The Scofflaw NEA
If you’ve ever wondered why Nevada taxes keep going up despite the wishes of most Nevadans, a big reason is unreported political money poured into the state by the National Education Association.
‘Incidental’ union violence
Here’s a big surprise. Violence accompanied Nevada’s latest Teamster strike.
Pushing poverty
Most Nevadans aren’t aware of it, but the Silver State has one of the lowest poverty rates in the country.
Force? Or Freedom?
Amid all the complaints that the initiative and referendum process is turning Nevada into “East California,” the real root of the problem — in both states — remains remarkably absent from discussion.
Risky Business
Nevada’s public employee pension fund is heavily invested in companies that do business with terrorist-sponsoring regimes, says a report issued last week by a Washington D.C. defense institute.
The Bad Faith Coalition
See if you can spot a pattern here. The state AFL-CIO puts on the November ballot a proposed constitutional amendment. It describes this to the media as a measure to raise the minimum wage by a dollar an hour. Except that the fine print of the proposed amendment turns out to exempt companies from the law if they make a deal with Big Labor! Yes, the scheme would give labor union officials the legal power to permit union companies to hire new employees at rates below the new minimum wage. It’s an engraved invitation to mob-style union corruption.
