Daily Glean: Michigan joins Nevada on Clinton's list of must-win states

• Macao's "steep and widening inequality of incomes" is hurt, not helped, by Las Vegas casino industry megalomaniacs Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson paying shit wages while wiping out the Chinese peasantry's meager assets (NYTimes)— just one of the many reasons why we like to say: Now, clearly, is no time to raise the gaming tax.
• Their overwhelming support for it (LVRJ) notwithstanding, Nevada voters might never see the gambling tax hike initiative, because people in suits might cut a deal (LVRJ, Sun). Here at the Gleaner, we're just as keen to, oh, triple the gaming tax as the next inconsequential lefty with a website. But frankly we'd be more impressed if the teachers would have had the guts to circulate a petition to raise taxes on multinational gold mining corporations. Of course, that's unrealistic. Upsetting the gambling industry is one thing, but facing the wrath of the all-important heartland bumpkin contingent is a risk that no politician or organization dares to face. Meantime, needless to say, executive assholes at Wal-Mart, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, KB Homes and too many other companies to mention who make a killing in Nevada while paying less in state taxes than they pay to buy whores to entertain visiting executives from the home office are chuckling as they slip the noose one more time.
• "Politicians will be put on the spot, torn between their loyalty to the state's longtime political dynasty and the evolutionary dynamics of a protean community. And other interest groups will be drawn into the fray, quietly feeling schadenfreude at the gamers' travails but careful to see now that the tax guns are unholstered that none is pointed at them" (Ralston/Sun). And here you thought the lowly Gleaner had cornered the area market for gratuitously florid prose.
• Poor John Edwards. Now that Illinois and New York, on behalf of Obama and Clinton, stood athwart the national SEIU endorsement process screaming stop, Edwards will have to settle for state-level endorsements in states with early contests (LVRJ). What's more, Edwards might have to settle for SEIU endorsements in big states that aren't having early contests (say, California) but who could be enlisted to send seasoned campaign worker bees to an early state (say, Nevada) where the SEIU has endorsed the same candidate. Have we mentioned lately that idle speculation is part of the Gleaner's mission statement?
• Stupid and uneducated Nevadans refuse to pay any taxes so His Lordship says the colleges will just have to gouge students. LVRJ
• Finally, Nevada can be proud to find itself at the bottom of a list; the state gets fewer federal dollars per person than any other state in the nation (LVRJ). This should come as a tremendous relief to Sen. Hairdo McWedgeshot, Gov. Pervy McSkanktard and the state's pair of matching good little go-along get-along pet Republican dronelets in the House who quietly do what they're told by their national party and corporate masters. Because the War Party might hate the evildoers, but it hates government spending even more.
• Michigan will host a much anticipated match-up pitting Hillary Clinton directly against Dennis Kucinich (Detroit Free Press).

Comments

a while paying less in state taxes than they pay to buy whores to entertain visiting executives

Are Sig Rogich's speaking fees really that high?

[Keeping Them Honest]

I wonder how wide Sig's stance is. Does Ralston know?

Sig doesn't need a stance. All of his shit comes straight out of his mouth.

[texex]

Well done, anon.