America-hating teachers foist totalitarian vision on defenseless casino industry

Well, the forces of creeping socialism are at it again.

It's not enough that union thugs are instructing Nevada's children to love everything about big government except its sole legitimate function — protecting America from its Islamofascist enemies — in the colossal indoctrination regime that the educrats try to sugarcoat by calling it the "public education system."

On Monday, Big Education followed through on its bullying threat to file a petition to raise the gaming tax.

As always seems to be the case when the collectivists undermine America's strength and traditional hierarchical values, the ballot initiative is being filed "for the children." But anyone with enough common sense to have tired of the non-stop statist propaganda pedaled by the mainstream leftist media knows what little Johnny's history teacher is really up to — ramming through a far left agenda to nationalize every industry in America and assure that the only manner in which people can secure sufficient food and housing for themselves and their families is by swearing fealty to the rapacious and insatiable nanny state.

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There. Now nobody should have to read an R-J editorial about gaming taxes, teachers unions or pretty much any other subject until at least, oh, the third week in May.

Which, as it happens, is the deadline for the Nevada State Education Association to cobble together 60,000 signatures and get their petition to hike the gaming tax by 3 points (from 6.75 percent to 9.75 percent) on the 2008 ballot. The signatures will be the easy part. If all the grown-ups don't strike a backroom deal to keep the initiative off the ballot, it has to pass in 2008, and then once more, in 2010, before the state can redress some minor grievances by reaching a little deeper into Sheldon Adelson's warmonger chest.

One difference between the gambling, er, gaming industry and all the other bidnesses 'round here is that the former already pays some taxes, while the latter just sucks from the teat of public services and public education paid for by gambling taxes, property taxes and a malicious sales tax system that punishes low-income people the hardest. It is indisputably both sick and wrong to let Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wal-Mart, Pulte, Nevada Power, Cox Communications, Embarq and on and on and on get away with paying a relative pittance.

Gambling corporations can afford to pay more taxes, but all those other big companies could very, very easily afford to start paying some taxes, and why Nevadans allow themselves to be taken advantage of by the world's largest impersonal inhuman and hence unfeeling and uncaring corporate entities continues to amaze. If tax policy must be set by an ill-informed mob in the voting booth, an initiative to implement an income tax on all big bidness, not just gambling, would have been preferred.

And tax policy must — be set by an ill-informed mob in the voting booth, that is. "After assessing the political climate in Nevada," NSEA President Lynne Warne said in a release Monday, "we have determined the only way to get additional support for our kids is by asking the people of Nevada to help save our schools."

In other words, the people who the people of Nevada elected to fund schools adequately, i.e. legislators and the ass-clown of a governor, are unwilling or unable to do their jobs.

Putting simplistic ideological rhetoric ahead of the well-being of people is more or less what Republicans do. Anyone who is surprised to find that Gov. Pervus A. McSkanktard and his War Party colleagues don't give a shit about public education clearly hasn't been paying attention.

Sadly, however, Democratic elected officials are also part of what the NSEA so gingerly describes as "the political climate in Nevada."  And while Republicans typically believe bullshit anti-government rants as might be found in an R-J editorial, Democrats (at least most of them) don't, and in fact know better. So the reason they don't get behind aggressive structural reforms that might fund education adequately must be that Democratic legislators are chickenshit. But hey, if someone has an alternative explanation, by all means, send it along.

Meantime, the gambling industry condoned, approved and supported the election of the nation's worst governor, so a 3 percentage point tax hike seems the least that the state of Nevada can do for the industry in return. No. Really. The very least.

Comments

[What?!]

Gleaner,
or, "G" as BB says,
Well written. Bright. Witty. Inclusive.
LV Sun, please hire this poor man.
R-J DO NOT HIRE THIS MAN-you wouldn't know what to do with him.

[kickboxermoma]

Great, I'm anxious to sign and ready to pass that baby around. And yes our tax structure needs to change so that the banks, and super commercial entities pay their fair share. I do want Jim Roger's money along with the RJ.

[Keeping Them Honest]

Amen, brothers and sisters!

But I'm dying to know, Gleaner. In Gov. Pervus A. McSkanktard's name ... what is the A for? Asshole? Ass-clown? Assaulter? Adelson?

[gleaner hearts gaming]

bringing others to the table to expand our tax base? Why Gleaner, you sound like Terry Lanni.

Except that Terry Lanni helped put Gibbons in office and says he doesn't regret it.

[KidFromVegas]

If our legislators had a backbone or gaming had foresight, these initiatives wouldn't be coming to bite them in the ass. Our Non-Gaming Corporations have been feeding at the developmental tax break and freebie buffet far too long. Take for example the RJ, their sole purpose is to send money to Arkansas…I’d like the Stephens Family Trust to build a road or two here in Nevada. And Terry Lanni shame on you…for putting an idiot in the governor’s mansion…serves you right.

On a side note, seems the Borg has slipped in Iowa…Obama is leading in the latest poll.

[vedube]

Follow the web address below for a background story on why Nevada's tax structure is so one-dimensional. I like the line: "Nevada thought it had found a free lunch" or something like that in the gaming industry

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/nov/04/566613240.html

[The Penguin]

Tom Mitchell's probably pissed that you wrote his editorial better than he could himself.

[dave202]

Nevada's gaming industry employs only 17% of the residents of the state so to saddle it with the entire burden of education is a travesty.

And the editorial is not only sophomoric, it resorts to name-calling, the essential fallback position of moronic liberals.

[Johnathan L. Abbinett]

...and moronic, selfish, neo-con sociopaths!