Patrick R. Gibbons
Taxing economic growth away
Today the Wall Street Journal editorialized on America's uncompetitive position in the world due to our relatively high corporate tax rate. According to a new Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) study cited by the editors, America has the second-highest corporate tax rate among OECD countries.
The Cult of the Presidency
George Bush will be remembered as one of America's best presidents ... but not for any good reason.
Pictures are worth a thousand journalists
Jon Ralston's latest column in In Business Las Vegas not only claims that Nevada needs to raise taxes to address its budget shortfall, but that everyone who opposes tax hikes should be ignored. But a one-sided debate is like a one-handed clapping contest, so let's review the facts.
Worthless paper
Nevada's higher education regents want almost 10 percent more for their budgets despite the state's revenue shortfall. What planet are they living on? Nevada isn't even getting a positive rate of return on its current investment in higher education. How can the regents justify an even greater investment?
Back to charter schools
Good news returns just in time for school. The Nevada State Board of Education ended the moratorium on approving new charter schools, but there is more to do if we want to improve education.
Where's the love?
The latest scuttlebutt in the business world is that Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobile, was seen in tears in his office this morning. Reportedly he was upset that no one sent him a "Thank You" card for lowering gas prices.
Corporate Welfare
The Reno Gazette-Journal lamented the loss of Reno's innovative wind-power generator manufacturing company Mariah Power by writing, "Lack of available talent and the short-term $1.8 million interest-free loan offered by Youngstown, Ohio, is what caused Mariah Power to move its manufacturing plant out of state."
Nevada’s not fat, it’s big boned
If your only source for news was ... well, the news, you would think Nevada's budget cuts are literally cutting through to the bone.
Easy math
Apparently State Sen. Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas) has been engaged in a hot debate over state spending that has spread from the Nevada Legislature into the newspapers and beyond. The Left now contends that per-capita state spending has dropped anywhere from 6.9 percent, according to Assemblyman Mo Denis (D-Las Vegas), to 29 percent, according to a mysterious big-government Utahan.
