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"Hasn’t changed. Trust me on that.
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- Carole Vilardo, President Nevada Taxpayers Association, who says she continues to have no regard for the Teachers Margins Tax.
- Tuesday, May 7, 2013.
"Let’s do study groups on how to get the railroad to come to Nevada and do some business in Nevada. The railroad is jumping over us and a lot of industry that’s coming here needs the railroad.
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- Lance Gilman, Partner- Broker, Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, who says that Union Pacific won’t even talk to TRI. He complains that the Legislature has study groups to raise revenue but not to cut expenses and that’s what’s needed for business to survive the next two years. - Monday, May 6, 2013.
"From an immediate implementation standpoint I think there are significant issues and from a long term fiscal standpoint I think that there is significant risk. How we mitigate that risk and protect ourselves is something that I worry about on a daily basis as we go through these budgets."
- State Senator Ben Kieckhefer, who is concerned that people will not sign up for Obamacare in the numbers the government is anticipating and that in the long term the Congress will not be able to continue funding Obamacare at 90% to 100%.
- Thursday, May 2, 2013.
"PERS has an unfunded liability of about 11.2 billion dollars. That’s with a B. And just ten years ago it was 3.2 billion dollars.
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- Assemblyman Randy Kirner, who is concerned that the PERS liability has grown by 800 million dollars per year, for the past decade. And he knows that that is unsustainable.
- Wednesday, May 1, 2013.
"She says yes, you need to retire, it’s time…but I hope you’re not going to stay home all day and bug the devil out of me.
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- Dick Gammick, Washoe County District Attorney, quoting his wife Norma, on his announcement that he would not stand for re-election in 2014.
- Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
"The sad thing is without treatment 90% will need some level of support the rest of their life.
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- Jan Crandy, NV Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorders, who says that the cost of supporting a low functioning person with autism, for life will cost 6 million dollars per person. Ms. Crandy is asking the Legislature to fully fund early intervention for autistic children, at a cost of 5 million dollars, over the next biennium. - Monday, April 29, 2013.
"We did it early. This is not a last week. This is not something that happened at the end of the session to try to obfuscate or confuse people.
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- State Senator Joe Hardy referring to the Republican Senators proposal to double the tax mining pays.
- Thursday, April 25, 2013.
"It’s not a good tax because it will effect economic growth in this state more negatively than this tax will.
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- President Emeritus John Gwaltney speaking in support of the proposed mining tax versus the teachers margins tax. - Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
"We would also like to, as part of our plan, actually invest our own shareholder dollars in renewable energy, really for the first time. Which I think is groundbreaking.
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- Tony Sanchez, SR VP NV Energy, who says because of this investment a lot of folks in the renewable energy and environmental community are very excited about this.
- Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
"I’m not a hunter, I don’t fish and I don’t camp. I’m not an environmentalist. I don’t go outside.
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- State Senator Aaron Ford, who says his lack of knowledge demanded that he hear all sides of the issues that have come up in the Natural Resources committee of which he is the chair.
- Monday, April 22, 2013.
"We’re going to have to raise taxes on everybody so we can have a good quality of life.
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- State Senator Tick Segerblom who thinks that Reno has a good quality of life subsidized by Southern Nevada. - Thursday, April 18, 2013.
"I don’t think he needed to be quite so dramatic about it.
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- Former State Senator, Helen Foley, agreeing with the need for more revenue to help Southern Nevada’s infrastructure needs and while agreeing with State Senator Segerblom on the need, not necessarily agreeing with his rhetoric. - Wednesday, April 17, 2013.
"It’s an absolute job killer and so I thought that one of the most important things I could do while I was up here was find a way to deal with that and attack that and blow up that tax. It’s going to be an absolute nightmare for Nevada."
- State Senator Mark Hutchison, who strongly opposes the Teacher’s Unions Margins Tax and became one of the Republican State Senators who proposed the Mining Tax as a way to give voters an alternative on the ballot.
- Tuesday, April 16, 2013.
"Some of it is going to take revenue that I believe that we haven’t necessarily collected, that’s probably available."
- Marilyn Kirkpatrick, Speaker of the Nevada Assembly, when asked if she can balance the budget without raising taxes from new sources, pointed to things like the live entertainment tax that has left lots of exemptions like Burning Man and the Electric Daisy Carnival. - Thursday, April 11, 2013.
"If you want us to spend more, you’re gonna have to look equally at ways that we can save more."
- Pat Hickey, Assembly Republican Leader, describing the end game of the Legislative process and how some leverage can be exerted, even from a minority point of view.
- Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
"It doesn’t seem that there is a big outcry about this.
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- State Senator Debbie Smith, who says that she is not hearing from very many construction companies or workers on the current prevailing wage laws that some say greatly drive up the cost of government construction.
- Tuesday, April 9, 2013.
