This just in! State Sen. Bob Beers is supporting — that’s right, supporting — Gov. Jim Gibbons call to cut the budget rather than raise taxes in order to overcome a potential shortfall in state revenues! Once again, Bob Beers is against taxes, and for government cuts.

We now go live to the e-mail in box, where we read this:

"This is government 101," said Beers, a Certified Public Accountant. "If some of our state managers are unable to draw up contingency plans for a little less revenue growth than first forecast, then they need to resign so we can get someone else who can perform this essential government management function."

 

Beers first made this statement, specifically about University Chancellor Rogers, and with all due respect, on his campaign website blog on October 18.

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Beers noted that "public school enrollments statewide grew slower than projections. University enrollment is down. Population growth has slowed by about half. The resulting decrease in demand for government services should make developing a contingency plan for spending up to five percent less child’s play."

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"When you combine the many hidden taxes Nevada families pay," said Beers, "and the taxes we take from our visitors and the businesses that attract and cater to them, we have one of the most well-fed governments in America. For the public servants we hire to manage our government services to demand more resources is shameless."

This story can only be described as totally shocking. And by "shocking," we mean "totally not shocking at all, since Beers has always been against taxes, but in a more charming way than Gibbons."