Taxes
Don't mess with the Texas mess
Executive Director of NFIB/Texas details harmful impact of margins tax
Will Newton, the Executive Director of NFIB/Texas, details the harmful impact the margins tax has had in Texas.
The end-game, Part I
Lawmakers spar over taxes once again
As the legislative session winds down, lawmakers are sparring over taxes once again.
The Impact of Obamacare on Nevada’s Medicaid Spending
Federal mandates will cost Nevada $5.4 billion in the next decade
Nevada will have to spend an additional $5.4 billion over the next decade to fund the forced expansion of Medicaid required by Obamacare.
Disastrous taxes dressed up with empty rhetoric
Legislative Democrats want to increase state taxes by $1.2 billion
Legislative Democrats want to pass the largest tax increase — $1.2 billion — in Nevada's history.
Responsible budgeting
Any excess state cash should be used to avoid state debt
Any additional funding projected by Nevada's Economic Forum should be used to avoid General Fund debt.
The bipartisan sabotage of free enterprise
Proposal would supplant private entrepreneurs with government bureaucrats
Proposal would allow government bureaucrats, not private entrepreneurs, to choose winners and losers in the marketplace.
Who Really Prevails Under Prevailing Wage?
Nevada governments waste billions in subsidies to union labor
Prevailing wage laws in Nevada undermine competition on the labor market and drive up construction costs borne by state taxpayers
Unions prevail, while most Nevadans struggle
Prevailing wage laws cost taxpayers billions
Nevada's prevailing wage law is costing taxpayers billions.
Diversification’s unhappy history: Part V
Some of the state’s most powerful interests have long fought broadening Nevada’s job base
It's not just the gaming industry — many of the states most powerful special interests have long fought policies that would have encouraged the expanding of Nevada's job base.
The tax-hike conspiracy
Big interests out to get the little man
Special interests are colluding in Carson City to try and institute a new business tax.
