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Posted At : January 29, 2008 12:31 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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And not Ron Paul (aka the Invisible Presidential Candidate) either. No, it's the bold, new economic vision of Gov. Jim Gibbons, as laid out to his local amen corner. Faced with a state budget deficit? Just grab more of the sales-tax money that supports city and county guvmint, and run like hell back to Carson City, leaving cities and counties increasingly reliant on property-tax revenues (which are currently being kept artificially low thanks to legislative intervention).
To give the Gibber his due, he credits this (bad) idea to state Sen. Bill Raggio, who knows more about how state government works than the entire Gibbons administration put together. (Sorry Bill, that's not much of a compliment but it's the best I could come up with on the fly.) And Gibbons is, for the moment, talking about running this past the Lege, which is mighty big of him, given his propensity for unilateral power grabs.
So where does gambling come into this? I'm so glad you asked. Well, if Robin Hood Gibbons makes good on his plan, areas like Clark County are going to be even more cash-strapped than they are at present. We recently had one local sales-tax increase to boost the police force. Heck, even the Review-Journal endorsed it! Look for more of the same, or maybe a bigger hotel tax, if the Gibbons-Raggio plan flies.
And if public services become any more constricted than they are presently, that's only going to help muster support for a larger privilege tax on casinos. So Gibbons' backers in the gaming industry might want to have a quiet word in his ear.
Oh, and the Gibber made a joke about the Monte Carlo fire. Really. What a cut-up.
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