Partisan Playbook
The Senate has worked tirelessly this weekend in order to pass the $433billion spending bill, known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This was sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin (D. W. VA), and includes a long list of amendments during the budget reconciliation process. Unlike most legislation passed in the Senate, the reconciliation process doesn’t require a super-majority of sixty votes, but a simple majority of fifty. If the GOP is strong, Kamala Harris, the Vice President, will cast the tiebreaking vote.
After her modifications to the package had been approved, Kyrsten Silema (a moderate senator from Arizona) was the last Democrat who did not support her. Except for the modifications to certain provisions regarding taxation on investment incomes known as carried interests, Senator Sinema received $4 billion funding from climate change agencies to help western states that are facing severe droughts.
The reconciliation process is a now-commonplace albeit baffling maneuver to get Democrat centerpiece policies passed by using special parliamentary procedures to short-cut the legislative process… and consensus. Late July saw President Joe Biden admit that much of the Act had been rebranded as Build Back Better.
“Some of you will see a lot of similarities between the beginning — (laughs) — of the Build Back Better initiative. It’s not all of it, but we’ve moved a long way.”
So, here’s the playbook: Take ideas that were tabled, tell Americans that major congressional spending bills combat inflation, and ram it through a backdoor, partisan process on a Saturday. In fact, there are many commonalities. this ain’t our first reconciliation rodeo.
Sausage Water Content
The Western states will receive billions in taxpayer money if the bill is passed. It will go from the federal government directly to the local governments. Private water rights can be purchased Are you asking yourself if fascism has ever been promoted to the public under the pretext of fighting inflation?
On Friday, a letter That raises concerns more than relief.Family Farm Bureau’s Executive Director Dan Kappen was the one who advocated drought provisions.
“Well, the sausage making is wrapped up, and an agreement has been reached on Western Drought provisions that will be proposed for inclusion in the Democrats’ ‘Inflation Reduction Act.’ “
U.S. The U.S. sausage-makingThursday’s agreement included $4 billion of funding for the Bureau of Reclamation. In states that water politics have been portrayed as climate action, all three senators will be up for reelection. California did not appear in the announcement of allocations, as Senators have made no comments on drought provisions.
The Bureau of Reclamation was the organization that declared in May that they would stop water release from Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona to Lake Mead, Nevada. Lake Mead, the man-made reservoir, is the biggest in the country, providing water for 25 million people. It also feeds the Hoover Dam which produces enough electricity to power 8 million homes annually. Lake Mead received 480,000 feet of water. That’s equivalent to 156 Billion gallons. It was cut off because the water level at Lake Powell could make power-generating turbines stop functioning.
Lake Mead now has its lowest ever level. The situation is becoming increasingly alarming for residents of Las Vegas, as third-party human remains have been found within the lake’s shrinking waters. Southern Nevada Water Authority sent out full-page mailings to its residential customers, urging them not to water their lawns and to report any water waste. In order to generate penaltiesYou can apply for rebates in order to cut turf grass. While voters are continuously bombarded with water-crisis information they aren’t being specifically told that the man-made lake is low because Well… we didn’t put water in it.
The trickle-down effect
While the federal spending will trickle down to municipalities, local Democrats’ water policies already impact Las Vegas families. A unanimous vote by the fully Democrat Clark County Commission was made in July to restrict single-family new homes’ pool sizes to 600 square feet. Water rules don’t just apply to new construction. They also impact homeowners who already own their home. Assembly Bill 356 was passed last year by a Democrat legislative major and signed by Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak.
“the waters of the Colorado River that are distributed by the Southern Nevada Water Authority… may not be used to irrigate nonfunctional turf on any property that is not zoned exclusively for a single-family residence.”
Compliance with the new law is required by 2027, but that hasn’t slowed the fiscal impact on homeowners. Sun City Anthem’s residents were surprised to find out that the HOA estimated $12,000 in costs for trimming trees, grass and other landscaping within their subdivision. While the local water authority will pay $3 per sq foot to tear out your lawn, there isn’t compensation for the Takeover by the governmentThis Nevada law imposes these conditions.
It is clear that the Dem-lead State views private property as a negative when they examine policies on how property owners can use it. Their own houses. Short-term renters sued Clark County and its Commissioners on Thursday. The lawsuit’s plaintiffs, part of the Greater Las Vegas Short-Term Rental Association argue the new regulations are unconstitutional saying,
“Where they’re giving themselves power to come to your property, your private property at any time that they want. They want you to shut everything down by 9 pm and you can’t even use your pool at a certain time.”
Louis Koorndyk (founder of GLVSTRA) was a plaintiff in suit.
Prior to the adoption of AB363, short-term rentals were banned in Clark County’s unincorporated regions. Representatives from Airbnb opposed the original draft of the bill saying it “would essentially ban any meaningful short-term rental activity.”
Clark County responded to the new law by creating a lottery system that will provide less than one percent of more than 12,000 illegally operating rental hosts the opportunity to buy a license… as in Paying the county for their use of private property.
Lawyer plaintiffs found help from local groups that support free market policies. Robert Fellner, Vice President of Nevada Policy Research Institute supports the plaintiff’s lawsuit, telling RedState,
AB363 is a prime example of the distrust in government that can be seen through rules against renting homes.
People have freedom to use their property in a free society. Many laws are already in place that deal with nuisances to the public. Instead of enforcing those laws, however, Clark County Commission decided to make property owners criminals for renting their houses to anyone less than 31 days. Unquestionably, such a brazen violation is against property rights. The Framers of Nevada Constitution would have considered it unconstitutional. It is also important that voters seek to have elected officials who voted in favor of these laws replaced as soon as possible.
Better government is the answer for a government that cannot enforce public nuisance laws. It does not penalize law-abiding citizens who want to peacefully use their property.
Nevada’s authorities are disregarding private property rights, as evidenced by numerous policies that continue burden residents with unnecessary costs and red tape. Locals are already being hounded by extreme Democrat policies. The inclusion of drought funding is also a part of the extreme Democrat policies. Inflation Spending ActSignals indicate that private water rights could be up for grabs by the government as the next frontier liquid goldThe desert.
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