Death by politician  The power appetite of pols is lethal for
society  By Steven Miller   • Thursday, June 3, 2010  Nevada's
current legislative leaders don't want you to hear it, but the
message rolling in from around the world is quite clear: The
welfare-state ideology they're trying to impose on the Silver
State spawns fiscal catastrophe.  All across Europe, countries
that have long subscribed to the democratic socialist vision of
free rides for all on the backs of the productive are now on the
brink of national bankruptcy. Cradle-to-grave government
produces out-of-control costs. Simultaneously, metastasizing
government precludes the healthy economic growth necessary to
pay those costs.  That Nevada politicians would be so
indifferent to the consequences of this European ideology that
they would seek to foist it on us all seems impossible to many.
Yet the strange, collectivist notions of the politicians
currently running the Nevada Legislature are now beyond dispute.
Their scheme for tax-eating "Vision S