MUTH’S TRUTHS
(Chuck Muth) – Greetings from Bimini Island.
When I was here last September, I was standing waist deep in warm tropical waters when I gave the green light to our attorney to sue Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar for refusing to clean up Nevada’s dirty voter files.
Ah, good times. Good times.
Spent yesterday in Key West. Fascinating history. Didn’t know the island had seceded from the United States and established the “Conch Republic” in a symbolic protest back in 1982.
Great key lime pie. Lots of bars. Kids seem to be enjoying themselves!
And a big thank you to Brittany Sheehan and Annie Black for holding down the fort while I’m gone. Just two more days before we head back to the barn and prepare to enter the lion’s den in Carson City for the final days of the session next week.
Don’t touch that dial!
The Pledge Assemblywoman Gallant Hates Is the Promise Taxpayers Love
(Annie Black) – Nevada Assemblywoman Danielle Gallant’s (R-Clark) recent column criticizing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge completely misses the mark – and worse.
It insults the very voters the Pledge was designed to protect.
She calls it a “weapon for political insiders.” But let’s be honest: the only people who feel “attacked” by the Pledge are politicians who don’t want to be held accountable when they break it.
The Pledge isn’t a tool of political insiders. It’s a promise to the people. Period.
Gallant tries to justify the recent reimposition of a Clark County property tax that was scheduled to sunset, claiming it wasn’t really a tax hike.
That’s like saying if you cancel a subscription but then decide to restart it, your bank account didn’t take a hit.
Of course it did. If the tax was going away – and lawmakers voted to keep it – that’s a tax increase by any honest standard.
The Taxpayer Protection Pledge clearly says: “I will oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.”
It doesn’t have fine print. It doesn’t carve out exceptions for “good intentions” or “public safety.”
And it certainly doesn’t say, “unless some lawyer finds a loophole in the statutes.”
And here’s the part Gallant conveniently leaves out: Of the 63 lawmakers in the Nevada Legislature, only five had the courage to vote no on this tax hike.
And of those five, three were Pledge signers.
Those lawmakers didn’t deserve criticism – they deserved applause.
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