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Inside Liberty Watch Today

By Doug French
Liberty Watch Columnist

Governor (Nevada) Kenny Guinn told Jon Ralston on Face-to-Face last week how proud he was of his administration's accomplishments of the past seven years.

Guinn crowed about how much taxpayer dough he funneled into mental health. He even said that he had fixed the DMV, mumbling something about people not having to wait six and half hours anymore. You may remember in one of the Governor's EALERTS he told us: "As you know, improving customer service at the Department of Motor Vehicles has always been a priority for me as your Governor."

So he added 129 positions at the DMV and presto, at the North Las Vegas DMV for instance, customers enjoyed the state's services with an average wait time of a mere 51 minutes, down from 69 minutes a year ago.

Fifty-one minutes, now that's gittin-r-dun.

Guinn mentioned that he was a Republican during the Ralston interview. Of course, he's never acted like it: proposing a 35 percent budget increase in 2003, and wanting to spend virtually all of the taxpayer money that has been gushing into Carson City the last two years.

Guinn says that he is a "person who cared about the state," which is exactly right; he did all he could to take money from taxpayers and keep state government fat, dumb and happy. Those people who led opposition to his tax increases he described as "individuals who are not very successful" in life.

What is really keeping Guinn awake at night, is the idea that the next governor might think that the state doesn't need any more money. "I tell you what, I will be very concerned about somebody who would get elected and come to this office and say, well, we don't need any more money," Guinn told Ralston. "I would be scared to death of that happening in this state."

What Ralston was asking Guinn was how the Governor felt about Bob Beers' proposed TABOR amendment similar to Colorado's that limits government spending to increases in population and inflation.

Guinn parrots that same old canard that since Nevada is the fastest growing state in the union, government spending should increase at an even faster pace than population and inflation. Besides, Guinn believes taxpayers have a responsibility to "take care of the less fortunate." Like say: "From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs," ay Comrade Guinn?

What is scary is that a person calling himself a Republican would believe in and legislate this Marxist claptrap.

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