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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Updated: Feb. 24, 2010 | 5:05 p.m.
CARSON CITY -- A proposal to raise $30 million by using cameras to catch insurance and vehicle registration scofflaws on Nevada roads appears to be dead in the Assembly.
Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, asked the body on Wednesday for a show of hands from people interested in pursuing the idea, proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons to help reduce the state's $887 million budget shortfall.
Only Assemblyman Lynn Stewart, R-Henderson, raised his hand.
"Let's cross that off the list," Buckley said as the special session of the Legislature continued for a second day.
The proposal also had been criticized by Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas.
Robin Reedy, Gibbons' chief of staff, had said that a Chicago company, InsureNet, guaranteed Nevada $30 million if it implemented its system of photographing license plates and determining whether vehicles are insured and properly registered.
Twenty-two percent of Nevada motorists drive without insurance, she said.
The state collects a $250 fine from owners of uninsured vehicles and a $500 fine from each vehicle owner who does not have a valid registration, if it can catch them.
Critics raised the privacy issue, although a spokesman for InsureNet said any information collected by the company would go into a national law enforcement computer network, and the company itself would not retain the information.
InsureNet is not yet operating its insurance verification system in any state. The company now verifies whether people have medical insurance.
Contact reporter Benjamin Spillman at bspillman@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3861.
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InsureNet is not yet operating its insurance verification system in any state. The company now verifies whether people have medical insurance.
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How do they do that?
Scanning people as we walk down the street?
Will they be used by the feds to scan us for mandatory health insurance as we walk in public?
Will there be troops on every corner waiting to grab you and take you to the Must Subscribe To Government Insurance reeducation cells?
I do not like the sounds of this one bit.
I do not want to have to purchase new eyes that will stand up to a government scanning device?
This is an outrage!
I am calling Mark Levin.
Looking for revenues? The Casinos, as reported in the LVRJ, pay 6.75% tax on profits. The average Nevadan, as reported in the LVRJ, pays 6.75% overall taxes. Currently many of the Casinos are using profits from Nevada to expand their operations Nationwide and Worldwide. I understand the room taxes, entertainment taxes and so forth come from Casinos, sort of. They are all paid by the consumer, not the casinos. Taxing the Casinos net profit another %point would go a long way toward our tax woes. Nevada Lawmakers had better wake up and smell the coffee. "We The People" all over America are beginning to realize what a crock we have been sold. All these years these supposed elected Representatives have been looking out for our interests has been a sham of unparalleled proportions. The Union members wages and Pensions, the overstaffed administrations of all government bureaus. The influence buying that has taken place at all levels of Government will be exposed and stopped. These elected officials and their minions have made a laughing stock out of all of us residents, citizens for years. The times they are a changing. "We The People" must gain a voice again and rid this system of this entrenched corruption, NOW.