Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

letter to the editor:

Dem stimulus is bad, GOP’s is good

The double standard presented by Sen. Dean Heller’s position on the Tesla tax incentives and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are startling. His website states: The Tesla announcement “shows Governor Sandoval’s policy of creating a low-tax environment to attract cutting-edge industry leaders, like Tesla, is working for our state.”

However, when it came to the Obama administration stimulus, Sen. Heller states he “opposed the trillion dollar stimulus, the auto bailout, ‘Cash for Clunkers’ and Obamacare.”

Given that $288 billion of the $831 billion 2009 stimulus was for tax relief, along with additional funds for building roads and bridges, and unemployment extensions, which Sen. Heller now says he is for, I guess we can say Heller’s philosophy is Democratic stimulus is bad, and Republican stimulus is good.

Jay Strassmeyer, Pahrump

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