Friday Fish Wrap: May 8, 2009

First, some catching up. I got zip responses or even guesses on Where In the World the following photo is from:

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Don't pee on my shoes and tell me it's raining: No new taxes?

For once the Reno Gazette-Journal got it right in todays’ op-ed page piece “Don’t believe the anti-tax talk”. The money has to come from somewhere, taxes or fees or something. Like my late boss and advertising man, Chris Demaris, used to say, “you can’t sell from an empty cart.”

According to the Gazette-Journal: ” No one should accept the governor’s rhetoric about not raising taxes on Nevadans, however. There may be no increase in sales or property taxes in Gibbons’ budget; there may be no new business taxes either. But Nevadans will be taxed.”

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