by Jeri Chadwell-Singley
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by tom tomorrow
Worst movie you’ve ever seen? Asked at Century Riverside 12, 11 N. Sierra St. Brian Zector Insurance adjuster
When I was in high school, my parents made me go see The Age of Innocence, and it got four or five stars from all the critics. And I thought it was terrible, but I was 16. It was the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
John Cooper PIT operator
Batman Returns. It was horrible. Except for Chris Walken, it was just the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Well, he’s good in everything—Christopher Walken.
Dan Foley Retiree
Another way to screw workers
Well, I don’t care much for the Jason pictures. It’s the same—repetitious. Once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, you know. So that’s my shot. You know.
“There’s a correlation between those who play the Last week on our letters page, a reader suggested that lottery and income,” said Nevada economist Thomas Nevada turn to lotteries to avoid a sales tax increase Cargill in 2005, during another of these outbreaks of for education. She seemed to suggest Nevada sign lottery escapism (“Who should pay?” RN&R, Feb. 10, onto the California lottery, or something. 2005). “You know, the lottery is a regressive tax on For as long as we can remember, there has been people who are not very good at math. I saw that on a small Nevada contingent that sees a lottery as a a bumper sticker in California. … But the question panacea for the state’s money troubles. Our letter writer last week wants a special session of the Nevada is, do you want to finance government expenditures, which are supposed to be for the public good, with a Legislature to get a lottery on this year’s November regressive tax?” ballot, which cannot be done. Lotteries are against Both the lottery and the sales tax are a mistake, the law and repealing the constitutional prohibition and the citizens committee that came up with the idea requires approval by two regular legislative sessions of hiking the sales tax needs to take it back to the and a public vote. drawing board. She wrote further, “The arguThe Nevada sales tax has gone ment of how a lottery system The county sales from 2.0 percent in 1955 to 6.85 would ‘hurt’ Nevada’s gambling is just plain hokum.” Perhaps, tax needs to be cut. now, plus local government add-ons. It can rise to more than 8 percent. In but something more than a mere Washoe it is currently 7.725 percent assertion that such is true is and far too high. needed before the state is likely to endanger existing While the lottery is no alternative, our letter writer gambling. But that is the least of the concerns with and others are not wrong about the sales tax, either. It a lottery. For one thing, there have been repeated suggestions that with Nevada’s small customer base— is only May. The Washoe County School Board must remove the tax hike from the ballot and send it back which already avails itself of existing gambling—the to the citizens’ committee. Washoe County badly money that could come in from a lottery wouldn’t be needs a cut, not a hike, in the sales tax. enough to justify the effort or to pay the administraIn case the citizens committee has not heard, the tive costs. After all, it is not from locals that most opposition to still another sales tax hike is coming Nevada casinos make most of their money, and those from supporters of public schools themselves, not few that do, like Baldini’s and the Bonanza, would from traditional tax opponents. What came out of the compete with a lottery for customers. citizens committee was something that reflected the For another and more important thing, the lottery desires of local businesspeople, not something that shares the same problem as the sales tax—it drains reflects the needs of schools. Ω the pockets of those who can least afford to pay. OPINION
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Joe Delorenzi Realtor
It’s called Laserblast. Just poorly done. If you ever saw it, you’d know. It’s an old sci-fi movie from way back, like back when they first invented color.
Lissie Kretsch Park ranger
This Means War. I’m game for a cheesy movie. I’m game for mindless entertainment. But it didn’t even hit the bar on that. It was just bad acting with like— not even something you could sink your teeth into on a lazy Saturday afternoon. It was bad.
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