Posted on 03/08/2010 10:11:06 AM PST by NevadaPolicyResearchInstitute
Consider the benign-sounding Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group and be afraid. Very afraid.
The tax eaters who run the Legislature plan to use it to lure you over for dinner and then cook and eat your wallet, your children's wallet and your children's children's wallet.
It sprang to life last year when the Legislature took $500,000 of your money (what budget crisis, right?) and created the stakeholder group, tasking it to discover a strategic "vision" for Nevada's quality-of-life goals.
Sounds like a "woo-hoo!" Yes? Anything but.
It's a ploy by the tax-and-spend crowd to quantify just how crummy Nevada is as a state so that legislators with a public employee union election base can use it to as a fulcrum to raise taxes and waste more of your money.
You think I'm overstating the case? Then take a look at who legislators selected as members of the stakeholder panel. One group, representing about 5 percent of Nevadans miraculously found a way to get appointed to 47 percent of the voting positions. Can you guess what group that was?
Right you are, sir! Ding, ding, ding!
Nine of the 19 "stakeholders" are either government employees, retired government employees or public employee union executives.
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
For more details, see also http://www.writeonnevada.com/2010/01/four-problems-with-nevada-vision.html
And the Stakeholders' Group is meeting this Friday in case anyone is interested and able to attend or watch online http://leg.state.nv.us/interim/75th2009/Committee/Interim/NevadaVisionStakeholders/index.cfm?ID=72
Sounds like Harry Reid's base!
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