Wizard's Positions on Nevada 2016 Propositions
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October 19th, 2016 at 4:59:04 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | One good thing about Nevada, compared to California, is there isn't 100 propositions to consider every election. Here in the Silver State we have just five. Here they are and my position on them.
Here is a summary.
More information for each initiative. What are your positions? Multiple votes allowed. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
October 19th, 2016 at 5:28:01 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 | Opposed you on 4 and 5 I don't think anything medical should be taxed Prefer lower taxes Are you voting for Heck or Cortez Masto? Trump is losing Nevada but republican Heck has a clear lead. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
October 19th, 2016 at 5:48:53 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
1. Disagree, criminals do not go to gun shows. All you do is either force guns to be shipped where they could fall into the wrong hands or run good, legal people out of business. 2. Ambivalent. I think pot use is a bad idea with bad results but no longer care. I'd be more in favor if it decriminalized all sales so people who want to grow a small amount for non-commercial sales do not end up in the legal-industrial complex for a victimless crime. 3. Not sure. I am for competition but against forcing utilities to buy power from your rooftop. 4. Disagree. Repeal as many taxes as possible. 5. Disagree. If politicians want to raise taxes let them man up and vote to raise them. I have been hearing the excuse of "the roads are crumbling" for 40 years or more. I have heard the we will run out of oil in 25 years for 35 years now. I have heard that global warming will kill us in 20 years for 30 years now. Not in favor of giving pols a free pass, which is what indexing taxes is doing. The President is a fink. |
October 19th, 2016 at 5:55:54 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | >>>>One good thing about Nevada, compared to California, is there isn't 100 propositions to consider every election. Here in the Silver State we have just five. Here they are and my position on them. So ya' got fewer... so what. They are still lobbyist created campaigns not citizens initiaves against a recalcitrant legislature.
The more hurdles you impose the more you subvert the basic right. How about a two week waiting period on license plat purchases. You can hold a show, but there can't be any sales without a two week wait; therefore shows go out of business and your right is solely on paper due to all those hurdles. Yeah, its coming but its the millionaire third generation growers who want to do the selling, not some statistician and all his brothers in law. Guaranteed revenue streams mean a guaranteed 'trough'. Don't supply it. |
October 19th, 2016 at 6:20:19 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Pennsylvania broke up the monopoly on power a few years ago. Your bill is split in two pieces. (1) Distribution which is not competitive, and (2) Generation which is competitive. The last bill was for 1610 kWh for Total Distribution Charges $88.32 (Customer Charge $14.28 plus a per kWh rate) Total Generation & Transmission Charges $119.95 = 1,610 kWh @ 7.450¢ per kWh I am willing to bet that is a lot less than what you pay in Las Vegas for an equivalent amount of electricity. If you support wind or solar generation of electricity you can opt to have your generation company use those technologies. But you will pay a premium rate. For example I might forego my 7.45¢/kWh generation rate and pay as high as 9.22¢/kWh if I believe in the companies policies. The distribution rate is unchanged. Many companies push free saturdays or sundays with a much higher rate the other days of the week. I find them somewhat distatefull because they oversell the advantages of the plan with trickster language. They often imply that by simply shifting laundry day to a free electricity day you can come out ahead (which is not true). In Winter of 2014 many people found that they had contracted on a variable rate with a reseller. While they thought they were getting a great rate, they didn't pay attention to the fact that there was no limit on the variability. One local woman said her electricity bill jumped in one month from $233 to $756. Homeowners with wind or solar generation would obviously like to bank their kwh when they can generate electricity (during the day and in windstorms) and then be able to use the electricity at no charge at night. The ideal arrangement for the homeowner is to deal with “excess generation” by simple "net metering" so that you only pay for the kwh you used above what you generated. Ideally you could store up credit in the summer and use it in the winter. Power companies are obviously opposed to any such simple accounting, and the passage of this amendment is unlikely to change that situation. |
October 19th, 2016 at 6:41:10 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Wind generation produces tax credits; the current variation is too much for the grid to handle. Most utilities have to pay for cogeneration at the 'avoided investment rate' on the theory that if they did not get the power they would have to build a new plant. |
October 19th, 2016 at 7:57:53 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | A lot to respond to here but I'm not sure I'm going to add anything new.
Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
October 20th, 2016 at 12:59:07 PM permalink | |
Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941 | On 1, I'm torn. I'm getting to the point where I no longer give a f#$% what people think or show or want to do because no one seems to be taking any sort of common sense approach, nor, and this is especially nor, reaching across the aisle. The are a few libs here who spout ideas, and to be honest, a lot of them, even the more extreme "anti-Ron Swanson" ones, I wouldn't be wholly against IF, and I cannot make the font big enough for this IF, there was reciprocity. But there NEVER is. If one wished to make me get a BG check, AND ballistic fingerprint my many firearms, AND register each and every one, hell, you could mandate training courses based on type similar to the DMV, that's what they will push for. But WHERE'S THE RECIPROCITY? Where is my protection? We should all know by now that any law is a breach of your freedom, and what is taken is NEVER given back, so why not voluntarily give some back as a show of togetherness and cooperation? Say you get all your checks and vetting, but I can then acquire any weapon of any capacity. Or that I can legally defend my self AND my weapons if an attempt to relieve me of them is taken. See, there's none of that. It's always take-take-take. And when I see these "common sense" initiatives get enacted, like the one that focused on mental illness here in the People's Republic, and then see that someone was relieved of their weaponry because they went to the Dr for the blues and was prescribed Xanex ( actually, seriously happened), then you know right where to stuff your legislation. Until I see the first mote of reciprocity or cooperation, consider my fingers jammed dead in my ears. 2 should be easy, but it's .gov. The AZD's of the world will lament that it makes you a lazy bum, and he's not completely in left field, not at all. BUT, that is not cause for legislation. "Being lazy" is not a crime. "Being soft in the head" is not a crime. "Obtaining wonder from idiotic thought experiments" endangers no one. Weed should have all the legislative action of a GD carrot. Period, end of sentence. OK, sure, if you'd like to open a dispensary or otherwise become commercial, yeah. FDA, USDA, it is a consumable, after all. But anything "lemonade stand" or smaller is simply a free pass. 40yrs of the War on Drugs, and it's STILL off the GD radar. And we wonder why we're in the shape we're in... All the rest seem to be economic questions. I'll spare you my ignorance. Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it. |
October 20th, 2016 at 8:02:53 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
The war on drugs is such a weird thing. You kind of have to start by asking if the drugs or the war on them cause more damage? On one hand we have spent hundreds of billions and trampled on civil rights. OTOH even with enforcement we have a snowstorm of heroin at the moment (or whatever analogy you want for the western states where Tar Heroin is not white.) Before that, we had cocaine. During all of that we have meth. And always pot, which seems to be the main drug that crosses cultural lines (heroin catching up there, though!) Has to be a way, though, to legalize but not promote. Allow but allow without having to walk down the street getting whiffs all the time. Keep it away from schools and no selling it to children. At the same time, let anyone sell it however they want. Soon people will realize who takes pride in their product. The President is a fink. |
October 21st, 2016 at 6:52:24 AM permalink | |
DJTeddyBear Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 5 Posts: 265 | In that case, why bother having background checks at all? After all, if that's your argument, shouldn't you also argue that crooks don't go to gun stores? Ignorance is bliss and knowledge is power. But having only some facts can get you into trouble! |