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Flashpoint for Dec. 16, 2005

Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 | 8:13 a.m.

The battle over Bob Beers' Tax and Spending Control initiative undoubtedly will feature some of the most overblown rhetoric in Nevada history. And I fear much of the hyperbole and hysteria will come from those fighting it. The good news: Just this week, state Sen. Mike Schneider set a high bar for silliness. First, Schneider argued during a debate with Beers that if the founders put this into our Constitution, our armies would still be fighting with muskets and wooden boats. And then Schneider topped himself by saying if the Founding Fathers had put TASC in the Constitution, we'd probably be speaking German right now. Something tells me Schneider might be taken off the anti-TASC speaking circuit.

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