Las Vegas cabbie and author of the LVCabbieChronicles,
Las Vegas NV.
Joined July 2009
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The 2025 WSOP Dealer Daze is here. I plan to run daily updates like before and will pin this master thread. Favorite and follow as needed. Lots of changes this year, so we're just going to paddle in and ride the wave. I'm on the schedule starting Wednesday. Good luck everyone.
If we can keep the no state income tax and no speed/red light cameras thing going I'm going to be Nevada ride or die for life.
I have seen several discussions this morning that Nevada is on its way to a state income tax. I suspect most claiming that don't understand the process. The same discussion happened when Sisolak won in 2018, even though the governor plays no part in the process. It requires a constitutional amendment by either:
1) Passing the legislature in two consecutive sessions (gov can't veto it) plus winning a statewide referendum. In this scenario, passing in 2027/2029 in Carson City and 2030 on the statewide ballot. Or:
2) Voters refer it to the ballot through a petition drive, which then requires it to pass two consecutive statewide elections.
There is no serious push for a NV income tax. The state is in strong financial shape. Any politician who pushes this would almost certainly lose the next cycle for proposing something so unpopular, and voters would never approve it anyway.
"I have more experience & expertise in how the rest of the world works than 99% of Americans. Certainly infinitely more than you do."
Again with the appeals to authority. If I said something that wasn't accurate, just point that out.
There are certainly benefits to being an ally of the US. It’s not doing much for Ukraine or NATO these days, but … 🤷🏻♂️ I never thought I’d see the US cozying up to the evil regimes of Russia & North Korea, but I digress. I have more experience & expertise in how the rest of the world works than 99% of Americans. Certainly infinitely more than you do. I respect your areas of expertise, yet you think you know more than I do in mine.
I won’t lecture you on how to drive a taxi and sell real estate, if you don’t lecture me on international business & geopolitics. Deal?
The US has done some good things in the world, most notably in places like Liberia, The Philippines and South Korea - which are probably the prime examples of what you’re talking about.
But that has nothing to do with the current state of affairs, which is pretty dire. That’s why more and more US citizens are looking for better alternatives overseas - and finding them.
It's not "just a question," it's an appeal to authority. As though one must travel to numerous countries before they can rightly point out that most of the places you mentioned benefit greatly from American economic & military prowess and in some cases owe their existence to it.
"BTW, how many countries outside of the US have you been to?"
What a weird question. How many must I travel to before you'll acknowledge a fact?
It came across that way, because that’s exactly the way you wrote it. Plus, you have the whole thing backwards - it’s the US that should be thankful to the rest of the world for its existence … because it was built by the Italians, Germans, British, Irish, Chinese, Africans, … etc etc. BTW, how many countries outside of the US have you been to?
This was not an attempt at American bravado, though I knew it would be taken that way. I'm making a different point entirely. It cannot be disputed that the US could have annexed Japan at the end of the war if it desired and it's a fact that Thailand was an occupied state, then.
I don’t know how much of that is true - most likely none of it. Japan and Thailand, for example, have existed thousands of years longer than the US and Thailand has never been conquered by a foreign power.
But it’s this kind of attitude that makes other countries think the US is full of uneducated buffoons. People in Japan and Thailand can afford their health care and medicine - on local wages. Sure, I’m spending US dollars which is an advantage, but the affordability transfers to the local people, too.
Like I said before if it's a non issue then the concession costs you nothing. Better yet, from a party standpoint, use this concession that costs you nothing and use it to trade for a win on an issue that you care about.
Those places are great, but would it not be fare to say that they wouldn't be great, or in many cases even exist, if not for the US? I mean, Japan owes it's independence to the US as we could have easily annexed it after WWII, instead we restored their sovereignty and they still
A short-list based on my experience: Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Portugal, Taiwan. That’s based primarily on cost of living being much lower than the US, lower rates of crime/violence, and fewer assholes, MAGATs, ghetto-rats & Karens.
YOU may not like those places, but they qualify given my criteria. Japan & Thailand are top of MY list … just delightful places to be.
..benefit greatly from US Military protection today. Similarly, with Japan's defeat, Cambodia and Thailand both won their sovereignty back. Vietnam would be a communist country if not for US intervention and Taiwan would almost certainly be ruled by Beijing. The lion's share of
.Costa Rica's capital investment derives from the US and they also benefit from the US military protection. To say nothing of the fact that even if everything I just said was untrue, those places only have relatively low cost of living because ex-pats began with from $USD.
"Why is there even an argument against voter ID?"
It's an interesting question, one with a few answers I think. Chief among them is likely that it stems from the right, and as such most on the left will oppose it on that basis alone. Or in other words, because people are idiots.
Again, wouldn't this all be more sensible if we just confirmed the identity of voters before they voted? Of course it would...
"Yeah but they compare your signature to your ID!" ...is the biggest self own imaginable in this debate. Do these people even realize how dumb that is?
Instead of relying on a complex secondary method of uncasting a fraudulent or even erroneous vote, wouldn't it make more sense to just prevent said vote in the first place by verifying the identification of the voter *before* they voted? Of course it would.
