Monday, June 30, 2003 | 9:07 a.m.
The Sun's June 27 editorial pounded on Assemblyman Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, -- again -- because he has stood firm against gutting Nevada's legacy of low taxes while calling Gov. Kenny Guinn and Sen. Bill Raggio, R-Reno, "fiscal conservatives" while supporting the biggest tax increase in Nevada's history.
A conservative is someone who would lessen government, not expand it. A conservative is someone who would tie government funding to public accountability, not dip into another's pocket to lavish dollars on already overbloated bureaucracies.
A fiscal conservative, then, would be someone who would make darn-good-n-sure that every such measure has been taken to ensure as little government with as much accountability as possible prior to pummeling Nevadans with punishing taxes to prop up the deeply flawed and failing Clark County School District. Not to mention expanding welfare and Medicaid bureaucrats while the number of cases those bureaucrats handle are declining rather than rising.
Get it right for a change. Bob Beers is a fiscal conservative. Gov. Guinn and Sen. Raggio may be members of the same party, but they are something else.
JOE WHEELER
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