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"It was more a gross receipts or gross revenues tax than margins, to be technical about it.
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- Assemblyman Pat Hickey who says he was willing to raise taxes from the start if the Republicans got some of their reforms passed. He felt, in several instances that occurred this session. - Monday, June 15, 2015.
"Yes, I think there is a movement nationwide, internationally, to allow people to end their own life. I am not part of that."
- State Senator Joe Hardy who is against the Death with Dignity movement. He feels that as a doctor himself he wants to focus on treating the patient and not allowing them to choose their own time of their demise. - Thursday, May 28, 2015.
"It’s the irony of making government small enough to fit in your uterus.
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- Elisa Cafferata, Planned Parenthood fighting against the parental notification bill regarding abortion and making the point that some of the conservative legislators promoting AB 405 would fight against what they perceive as the nanny state.
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015.
"Some of them were absolutely astounded. Some were absolutely furious. (referring to the committee members).
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- Susan Fisher VP Government Affairs McDonald Carano referring to the tepid support the CEO of the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce, Kristen McMillan, gave to Governor Sandoval’s Plan B tax plan, in front of Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance. - Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
"I worry about the nuclear option.
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- Fred Lokken, Political Scientist TMCC, who says that if everyone is really stubborn about getting everything they came to the session to get, that will create barriers that will drive us into multiple special sessions. - Monday, May 25, 2015.
"You’ve got two businesses that are monopolies, trying to change the face of how other business is done in the state of Nevada.
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- Mary Lau President RAN naming MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment as the prime sponsors of the Gross Receipts Tax (Commerce Tax) that is currently under debate at the Legislature. - Thursday, May 21, 2015.
"I don’t know who’s who, in the zoo.
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- Assemblyman Randy Kirner responding that he hadn’t seen NPRI’s list of who might vote for the Governors tax plan. Kirner still has concerns over the nature of the Commerce tax, regarding gross receipts. - Wednesday, May 20, 2015.
"Practically speaking, that’s not going to happen and can’t happen very easily.
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- Assemblyman Pat Hickey describing the problems with Jim Wheeler/Ron Knecht tax plan because it would require local governments to significantly reduce their PERS contribution. - Tuesday, May 19, 2015.
"What we’ve done is given the PUC the ability, the authority to raise the cap.
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- State Senator James Settlemeyer who says that he is making sure that the costs associated with solar energy is not passed on to the regular consumer.
- Monday, May 18, 2015.
"If that does not go forward, we’re going to lose, not just the business to Northern Nevada but for every single county in Nevada we’re going to lose a leading edge, dynamic industry."
- Lance Gilman, Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, referencing a bill (SB 170) that contains incentives for companies like Switch to remain and expand, in Nevada. - Thursday, May 14, 2015.
"I don’t think a gross receipts tax, as such, is on our radar.
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- Speaker of the Nevada Assembly John Hambrick giving a hint as to what the Assembly Republicans are thinking at this moment in time. - Wednesday, May 13, 2015.
"The saddest thing that happened was a rule change in the Senate yesterday that in effect doesn’t allow the minority party to introduce an amendment unless the majority party approves it."
- Danny Thompson AFL-CIO who says he’s never seen anything like it in the 35 years he’s been at the Nevada Legislature.
- Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
"I don’t know whether they’ll make any changes, this session, or next, or not at all.
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- Chief Justice Nevada Supreme Court James Hardesty who says that according to the bill that was passed in 1997, if Nevadans approved a Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court would be reduced from 7 to 5 members. - Monday, May 11, 2015.
"So you just mentioned several of the things that keep me up at night.
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- Pat Skorkowsky, Superintendent Clark County School District who says the main one is having a seat for every student. The Superintendent concerns encompass the pre-recession growth that is returning to the Las Vegas valley. - Thursday, May 7, 2015.
"There’s going to be some requirements by certain segments of the Republican caucus, in the Assembly, that some of these reforms go through."
- Attorney Joe Guild who says that to get Republicans to support a tax increase, they are going to want some tort reforms to go through.
- Wednesday, May 6, 2015.
"They (MPP) were concerned that the liquor industry would come in and oppose the petition so they thought, well, if we bring them in and let them be part of it then they’ll support and won’t fight it on the ballot."
- State Senator Tick Segerblom on why there will be a three tier system, as there is for alcohol, for recreational marijuana. This will amount to a 10% tax. The Marijuana Policy Project was concerned that the liquor industry might mount a ten million dollar campaign to defeat the initiative unless they were included. - Tuesday, May 5, 2015.
