Steven Miller
The continuing campaign for a gross-receipts tax
Deutsche Bank gaming analyst Bill Lerner made some solid points about the teacher union's gaming tax push on April 24 when he spoke to the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. Unfortunately, he undercut his presentation at the same time by also indiscriminately parroting bogus talking points beloved by Nevada's zealots for "broad-based" tax schemes.
When you're right, you're right – even when you're center-left
Brookings economists agree with NPRI on government regulation
Just noticed today that our April 10 commentary asserting the fundamental inadequacy of government regulation got some cogent and really high-caliber support later in the month from two senior Brookings Institution economists.
When you're right, you're right-even when you're center-left: Brookings economists agree with NPRI on government regulation
Watching the watchers
Government ‘regulation' is no magic bullet.
Ever notice how, whenever Nevada government lays yet another egg, the "solution" that politicians and bureaucrats prescribe always turns out to be yet more government?
On the road to health-care Hell
Blame government, not free markets, for the mess.
That American health care's problems are systemic is an argument we often hear from advocates of socialized medicine. But the rarely admitted reality is that we already have socialized medicine. And it is that system that is increasingly devolving into – and subjecting us to – bureaucratically indifferent, incompetent and callous Soviet-style medicine.
The next real estate bubble
Another assault on Nevadans from runaway property taxes already looms down the road.
The widespread consensus in America's financial centers today is that our nation's runaway real estate bubble is the direct result of the U.S. Federal Reserve's profligacy – i.e., its prolonged and heavy pedal-to-the-metal foot on the central bank's monetary accelerator.
Getting Plucked in Nevada
How Government Covertly Increases Your Tax Burden
You'd never know it from the incessant calls for new taxes on Nevadans, but Silver State residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
The Covert Consensus
Authoritarians agree in their antipathy for Bush.
If you've ever wondered why even a mention of George W. Bush regularly causes American leftists to become unhinged, his Vegas speech Jan. 31 offered a major clue.
Welcome to Rubelandia
Biting your currency – instead of getting bit by it
In the normal course of economic activity, you would never make an investment expecting that it will lose you money.
Big Labor's favorite tool
Intimidation is at the heart of unionism.
During and after the Nevada Democratic Party's divisive caucuses last week, both camps — Clinton/teacher union and Obama/Culinary union — accused the other of attempting to intimidate voters.
Significantly, however, the very caucusing system that permitted union members and others to be subjected to threats and intimidation had earlier been approved by the leadership of both unions.
