Law
Design flaws
Nevada has a poorly structured regulatory system.
Bob the Decorator faces absurd regulatory barriers. Why? Because Nevada can't allow unregulated interior designers to run amok, as your health and welfare apparently may be threatened if your new bergère doesn't match the color of your La-Z-Boy.
Out with the old
Resistance to term limits only proves we need them.
The chicanery of Nevada's power mongers around the topic of term limits reminds us why we need those term limits in the first place.
The Incumbency Problem
The systemic problem that Nevada taxpayers face is political
We already have term limits,” goes the refrain. “They’re called elections.”
Get ready to hear that particular bit of sloganeering for years to come. The term-limits approved by Nevada voters in 1994 and 1996 are every day getting closer to kicking in. And in other states when that deadline approached, incumbents and supporting special interests launched frantic efforts to get voters to change their minds.
High Anxiety
AJR 7 signals fear in Nevada’s political establishment
As Nevada’s long-delayed term limits finally heave into view, the anxiety in the state’s ruling political class is evident.
Bow down before your masters
Nevada's government employees don't like your First Amendment rights
For decades Nevada’s state and local government employees have used their political power to gain legal and economic privileges over ordinary taxpayers.
On Being Blinded
Nevada voters have a basic right to know who is behind efforts to fundamentally restructure their government. Yet Silver State law requiring that is being successfully gutted.
Justice is blind, goes the phrase. Here in Nevada some lawyers like that idea so much that they're working overtime to make the entire electorate blind.
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.
The Bad Faith Coalition
See if you can spot a pattern here. The state AFL-CIO puts on the November ballot a proposed constitutional amendment. It describes this to the media as a measure to raise the minimum wage by a dollar an hour. Except that the fine print of the proposed amendment turns out to exempt companies from the law if they make a deal with Big Labor! Yes, the scheme would give labor union officials the legal power to permit union companies to hire new employees at rates below the new minimum wage. It’s an engraved invitation to mob-style union corruption.
The Predator Coalition
Almost 100 years ago, the German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer had the audacity to acknowledge that, throughout human history, there have been only two ways to acquire wealth—the economic means and the political means.
The Horns of the Court
"Government protects government,” observed Secretary of State Dean Heller last month.
