Taxes
The Predators Bawl
Every other day powerful Nevada politicians ostentatiously holler, through the press, that they’re against taxing “the little guy.”
Taxing Lies
A couple of years or so ago, Nevadans were being told, up and down the state, that state schools were paying teachers shamefully low salaries. Then the American Federation of Teachers—somehow singing from the wrong songbook—happened to mention that Silver State teachers, compared to their colleagues around the country, were making significantly better-than-average salaries. Oops.
Kids Can’t Read Because the State Can’t Calculate
What businessperson would ever continue to fund an investment that was not generating a positive return?
The 'Broad Based' Tax Scam
The campaign to impose big new taxes on working Nevadans has been notable for demonstrating a nearly infinite number of ways for trashing the truth.
The Tipping Point
Business comes of age
April 16—the day that the state senate’s taxation committee killed the Guinn administration’s proposed gross receipts tax (GRT)—was a watershed day in the history of the Silver State.
The Real Deficit: Credibility
Over the last several years we’ve all been repeatedly told that looming state budget deficits require radical changes in Nevada’s tax system.
Galt's Gulch No More
The only gulch that people typically associate with Las Vegas is Glitter Gulch—that stretch of what was once Fremont Street (now a pedestrian mall) from Las Vegas Boulevard to Main Street.
Behind the Rationalization
What’s really behind the campaign to impose a radical new tax structure on Nevada?
What is Seen and Not Seen
The is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one,” wrote the great French economist Frederic Bastiat, “The bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”
Still Plenty to Mismanage
The hue and cry is deafening from the pro-tax politicians and pundits. They claim legislators who oppose Kenny Guinn’s temporary tax increases in the face of a certain war with Iraq are somehow “craven.” But far from being cowardly, the Gang of 63 is showing some rare good sense.
