Taxes
Solution of the week: The many problems of the margin tax
Margin tax combines worst features of corporate-income and gross-receipts taxes
A margin tax would combine the worst features of corporate-income and gross-receipts taxes.
Solution of the week: Tax reform
How to reform and improve Nevada's tax structure in a revenue-neutral manner
This is how to reform and improve Nevada's tax structure in a revenue-neutral manner.
Taxpayers don't prevail
Nevada's prevailing wage law benefits narrow groups at public expense
Nevada’s prevailing wage law benefits a select few at public expense.
Top 10 ideas for bill draft requests: 1-5
Legislative ideas for new lawmakers
Here are five solutions to move Nevada forward.
Setting up the next CCSD campaign for higher taxes
If tax increase passes, CCSD officials could ask to extend higher tax rate for 30 years
If property-tax increase passes, CCSD officials could ask to extend higher tax rate for 30 years.
Gyms planned by CCSD for rural high schools would cost as much as UNLV's Mendenhall Center
Proposed tax increase would give school of 244 a new $11.9 million gym
If Question 2 passes, a school of 244 is scheduled to receive a new $11.9 million gym.
The Nevada Piglet Book 2012
When the government controls society’s resources, it becomes about who you know, not what you know. As resources are politicized, they get doled out to those with political pull to the detriment of the average citizen. That’s a central lesson of this biennium’s Piglet Book.
CCSD advocacy spending for Question 2 appears to violate state ethics law
District says private PAC will reimburse it for 'Vote Yes on 2' materials, employee costs
District says School Improvement Committee PAC will reimburse it for 'Vote Yes on 2' materials, employee costs.
Analysis: Schools on CCSD capital improvement list already received over $470 million from previous bonds
CCSD also admits school project list can be changed 'as necessary'
School district also admits school project list can be changed 'as necessary.'
Margins tax mayhem
Unions' tax initiative would devastate small, struggling businesses
Small, struggling businesses would be devastated by unions' tax initiative.
