Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Carole Vilardo, president of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called this a double-edged sword .. it just exacerbates the [government] shortfalls ..
Can you believe this Socialist?! Oh, pity the poor, deprived government! The "downside" is that ordinary folks are hurting, not that government is shrinking. But what would you expect from this protectionist queen? Her membership FEEDS off government favors. Lower tax revenues mean less money redistributed to *them*. Tough times indeed.
The NTA is BIG Government advocacy group. Their Board is a "Who's Who?" of Nevada Socialism, representing special interests in banking, railroads, real estate, energy, lawyers -- even ex-crooked politicians turned lobbyists.
The usual corporate welfare suspects.
Showing posts with label NV_Socialists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NV_Socialists. Show all posts
Monday, February 15, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
CCSD Goes Green
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Public education is a *political* institution. Environmental cases use it to indoctrinate kids with ultra left wing notions about:
We can't expect CCSD to do anything about this, though. It's too busy operating a shuttle service, a logistics firm, monitoring highway air quality and accepting awards from the Lung Association and the School Administrators Association.
Public education is a *political* institution. Environmental cases use it to indoctrinate kids with ultra left wing notions about:
- Green technology (politically correct corporate welfare)
- Mass transit (politically correct tax subsidies)
- Mass warming (carbon taxes)
- Recycling (burial rights for junk)
- Composting (burial rights for vegetables)
- and on and on and on
We can't expect CCSD to do anything about this, though. It's too busy operating a shuttle service, a logistics firm, monitoring highway air quality and accepting awards from the Lung Association and the School Administrators Association.
Friday, January 29, 2010
MGM: More Government Mandates
Originally posted in a LVRJ forum
MGM's Murren said: we must work together to define our objectives, generate an agenda, craft a plan of action and then pledge our resources to promoting the promise of progress.
In other words, "How can we get MORE government favors while shifting the tax cast over to somebody else?" The coalition for BIG government.
If we had small government in this state the biennial budget would only have to be $100M/yr (+/- 20%). *Existing* mining taxes plus ~3 weeks of sales taxes would cover it. We could ABOLISH gaming taxes, entertainment taxes, business taxes, etc.
But if CCSD were redced to one little red schoolhouse, how would all those Chambers members be able to keep making money off of public education?
If the State (us) wasn't vouching for them, how would MGM ever establish an honest reputation?
We don't want any part in your dirty crap games. Build your businesses the old fashioned way instead of the shortcut government protectionist way.
MGM's Murren said: we must work together to define our objectives, generate an agenda, craft a plan of action and then pledge our resources to promoting the promise of progress.
In other words, "How can we get MORE government favors while shifting the tax cast over to somebody else?" The coalition for BIG government.
If we had small government in this state the biennial budget would only have to be $100M/yr (+/- 20%). *Existing* mining taxes plus ~3 weeks of sales taxes would cover it. We could ABOLISH gaming taxes, entertainment taxes, business taxes, etc.
But if CCSD were redced to one little red schoolhouse, how would all those Chambers members be able to keep making money off of public education?
If the State (us) wasn't vouching for them, how would MGM ever establish an honest reputation?
We don't want any part in your dirty crap games. Build your businesses the old fashioned way instead of the shortcut government protectionist way.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
CCSD Scores High On Recycling
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Tapestries woven with the fibers of shredded plastic bottles hang on the walls of the northeast valley campus
They dare not post the test scores.
I've actually seen this sort of drek in *museums*. Ghastly.
Recycling. Really.
Tapestries woven with the fibers of shredded plastic bottles hang on the walls of the northeast valley campus
They dare not post the test scores.
I've actually seen this sort of drek in *museums*. Ghastly.
Recycling. Really.
Monday, January 18, 2010
NSHE Textbooks Advocate Socialism
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Academic texts are usually writen by BIG government advocates -- especially in the social "sciences". For an illustration of what's wrong with college textbooks, here is Rothbard on Samuelson's Economics:
It is no accident that, in every succeeding edition, the colors get gaudier and, more important, the size gets bigger (868 pages in the eighth edition, 917 in the new ninth). For what the hapless undergraduate discovers in Samuelson and his flock of imitators is a vast potpourri (or kitchen midden, depending on one's point of view) of bits and smidgens of technique and of data, none of them integrated into any sort of digestible or comprehensible whole. Samuelson concluded the preface to his new edition by asserting, in his typically breezy style: "My envy goes out to the reader, setting out to explore the exciting world of economics for the first time. . . may I only say, bon appetit!" (p. xii). In contrast, my heart goes out to the poor bewildered undergraduate, confronted with this gigantic stew, ranging from opinionated wisecracks to the Giffen Paradox to marginal productivity analysis to Harrod-Domar-Modigliani growth models to notes on economists past and present to the latest ultrasophistication in reswitching analysis. What in the world can he make of all this? It is no wonder that economics is almost universally the most disliked subject in the college curriculum. ..
Samuelson and most other texts get larger each edition because they are written as compendia of received economic opinion at the time of publication. And so very little gets dropped; as new economic problems are faced in the society, more chapters—more problem areas—get added [permanently] to the [stew], whether the new fashion be underdevelopment or unemployment or inflation or the New Left or ecology.
Academic texts are usually writen by BIG government advocates -- especially in the social "sciences". For an illustration of what's wrong with college textbooks, here is Rothbard on Samuelson's Economics:
It is no accident that, in every succeeding edition, the colors get gaudier and, more important, the size gets bigger (868 pages in the eighth edition, 917 in the new ninth). For what the hapless undergraduate discovers in Samuelson and his flock of imitators is a vast potpourri (or kitchen midden, depending on one's point of view) of bits and smidgens of technique and of data, none of them integrated into any sort of digestible or comprehensible whole. Samuelson concluded the preface to his new edition by asserting, in his typically breezy style: "My envy goes out to the reader, setting out to explore the exciting world of economics for the first time. . . may I only say, bon appetit!" (p. xii). In contrast, my heart goes out to the poor bewildered undergraduate, confronted with this gigantic stew, ranging from opinionated wisecracks to the Giffen Paradox to marginal productivity analysis to Harrod-Domar-Modigliani growth models to notes on economists past and present to the latest ultrasophistication in reswitching analysis. What in the world can he make of all this? It is no wonder that economics is almost universally the most disliked subject in the college curriculum. ..
Samuelson and most other texts get larger each edition because they are written as compendia of received economic opinion at the time of publication. And so very little gets dropped; as new economic problems are faced in the society, more chapters—more problem areas—get added [permanently] to the [stew], whether the new fashion be underdevelopment or unemployment or inflation or the New Left or ecology.
Friday, January 8, 2010
CCSD's Task Force For BIG Government
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Virtually all members [ of The Committee on Community Priorities (a 15-person task force) ] favored consolidating services ..
But not eliminating them. The task force's *priority* is BIG government. A totally rigged game.
Virtually all members [ of The Committee on Community Priorities (a 15-person task force) ] favored consolidating services ..
But not eliminating them. The task force's *priority* is BIG government. A totally rigged game.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
LVRJ Forum's Official Government Censor
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
LVRJ's government censor will approve rabidly vulgar ethnic, religious, and personally-targeted comments ad infinitum, but he'll spike reasoned, dispassionate and objective comments which conflict with his political biases.
Some forum.
LVRJ's government censor will approve rabidly vulgar ethnic, religious, and personally-targeted comments ad infinitum, but he'll spike reasoned, dispassionate and objective comments which conflict with his political biases.
Some forum.
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