Taxes
The ‘48th in the Nation’ Ruse
Civil society and freedom, not big government and politics, hold the key to solving Nevada’s 'social ills'.
For years, power-hungry Nevada politicians thought they knew precisely how to guilt-trip Silver State voters into submitting to ever-bigger government and ever-higher taxes.
Homeschooling in Nevada: The Budgetary Impact
Home school students benefit school districts in the long run by relieving them of the total costs of educating them.
Social Security & Partisanship
Our politicians need to get past their partisanship, to achieve needed reforms.
The silly season with respect to reforming the Social Security retirement program is in full swing. Democrats and liberals claim there is at worst a minor financial problem that can be fixed. Republicans and libertarians think the system is broken financially and offers perverse incentives to participants and politicians.
Running Scared
Nevada’s tax-consuming establishment continues to use taxpayers’ resources to fight taxpayer relief
A fundamental problem exists with tax-financed public institutions, and at UNLV January 7 it was very much on display.
What Prop 13 was really all about
The systemic problem faced by Nevada property taxpayers and others is political
Deathly afraid that sky-high property tax rates in Nevada will trigger an historic tax revolt, members of the state’s tax-consuming class are clearly in a dither.
Boilerplate for Bigger Tax Burdens
Apologists for new schemes to raise Nevada’s sales tax routinely misrepresent the real costs to voters and the state.
When voters in Nevada’s two most populous counties went to vote last November, they found themselves on the receiving end of what is virtually now a boilerplate pitch for ever-higher Silver State sales taxes.
Nevada's 2003 Tax Increases
Underlying Assumptions and Resulting Impact
Tax collections are running far ahead of Task Force estimates, while many programs are requiring less money than forecasts suggested.
Nevada Education: Laying the Groundwork
Education is Nevada's greatest budget priority, comprising nearly 55% of the state's budget. Even though Nevada leads the nation in terms of percentage of money spent on education, results on standardized tests remain near the national average. Such a performance record would put any investor in the private sector out of business. This study outlines three major problem areas - the economies, politics, and accountability of education in Nevada. The author recommends reforms that would improve the level of education in Nevada.
The Scofflaw NEA
If you’ve ever wondered why Nevada taxes keep going up despite the wishes of most Nevadans, a big reason is unreported political money poured into the state by the National Education Association.
Force? Or Freedom?
Amid all the complaints that the initiative and referendum process is turning Nevada into “East California,” the real root of the problem — in both states — remains remarkably absent from discussion.
