{"id":5739,"date":"2011-02-09T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2011-02-09T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:57:59","slug":"quote-of-the-day-280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-280\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4902\" title=\"sandoval_t178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sandoval_t178-124x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sandoval_t178-124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sandoval_t178.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/>&#8220;If Gov. <strong>Brian Sandoval <\/strong>could take the state\u2019s checkbook  to a <strong>Money Tree<\/strong> store, maybe he could borrow the $1 billion that would  at least get <strong>Nevada<\/strong> back to the budget amount approved by the 2009  Legislature. The Money Tree in <strong>Carson City<\/strong> charges $16.50 per $100  borrowed, so Nevada would have to eventually have to pay fees of $165  million. But the economy will have come back by the time the loan is  due, right?&#8221; &#8212; Las Vegas CityLife <em>political columnist <strong>Steve Sebelius<\/strong>, waggishly <a href=\"http:\/\/slashpolitics.lvcitylife.com\/2011\/02\/thinking-outside-the-tax-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">suggesting possible fixes<\/a> for the Silver State&#8217;s yawning revenue chasm<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If Gov. Brian Sandoval could take the state\u2019s checkbook to a Money Tree store, maybe he could borrow the $1 billion that would at least get Nevada back to the budget amount approved by the 2009 Legislature. The Money Tree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-280\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,14,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}