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farkdawg

1st Grade Teacher is right!

Tax gold at a higher rate when the price is over $500 per ounce. The cost to extract an ounce continues to go down due to improved technology.

We only need to change the constitution. I don't know if our electeds have that type of courage.

I think Judge Vinson is wrong because healthcare is unique. Health insurance isn't just a transaction. We as a society have agreed to help people when they call 911 or are found bleeding in the street. Therefore the burden of their treatment is absorbed by society if they don't have insurance.

Judge Vinson argued that if you required insurance to be purchased you are making inaction illegal and Obama's lawyers say that not buying insurance is a choice and therefore an action. It seems that since everyone gets cumpolsory treatment that insurance could be required and would be a unique situation.

I hope the Cities and County work together to avoid getting bulldozed by the State. Home rule would be a pretty substantial silver lining to these storm clouds.

I know this next statement is totally contradictory to everything we hear in the media for the past decade but - I am not overtaxed! I would not be upset if my property taxes, for instance, went up to improve our schools, or to keep the elderly from losing their meds, or to help folks get jobs, or to save other programs that show that we are a compassionate species.

I'm lost here. I understand that politicians need to be sensitive to perceptions but there's no recommended donation amount, there's just an invitation. His picture could be smaller or omitted entirely, that's for sure.

If there was no reception at all, Ralston's headline would read, "New Speaker Too Good to Meet With Nevadans - High fallutin south State Dem can't seem to find any time for the people who elected him."

The "kiss my ring" line from Ralston is a little more creative and bombastic than my attempt.

A "downgrade" is when the debt rating actually changes. The headline should be something like "revises their outlook downward". This is not a "downgrade" and the Sun may want to consider a correction.

The effect on actual interest rates will be small like one tenth of one percent or some small fraction of a percent. This is not really terrible news. Considering all of the blows we've taken Nevada should be relatively very happy that an actual downgrade hasn't occurred.