Steven Miller
A Really, Really Bad Idea
The push for full-day government-run pre-schools is largely about empire-building and loot—not the welfare of toddlers
People who systematically damage little kids are not—most of the time—rewarded with huge compulsory new programs giving them monopoly control over tens of thousands of additional small children.
The Red Herring
Nevada K-12 education’s real problem is huge and systemic waste
The old and bogus controversy over Nevada’s ranking in the national per-pupil spending sweepstakes flared up in the Legislature again last week. As usual, an accusatory tag team of government educrats and teacher union operatives was on offense.
Divide and Conquer – Again
For months Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley has made exceedingly obvious her party’s desire to squeeze windfall property tax revenues out of Nevadans for as long as possible.
The Luckiest Ponzi Scheme
The systemic problem that Nevada taxpayers face is political
When Charles Ponzi was defrauding investors in 1916 Boston, little did he know that within 20 years his particular dodge would be embraced as the official policy of the U.S. government.
How much carnage?
Chronic screw-ups like minimum wage schemes suggest the blather about 'compassion' is bogus.
Just how much damage do proponents of “compassion” get to inflict, anyway?
A Conspiracy against Excellence
Teacher union salary schedules reward the mediocre, penalize the talented
Recent research has shown that teachers are by far the most important factor in student achievement—some 20 times as important as other factors, like class size or socioeconomic status.
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 ‘48th in the Nation’ Ruse
Civil society and freedom, not big government and politics, hold the key to solving Nevada’s 'social ills'.
For years, power-hungry Nevada politicians thought they knew precisely how to guilt-trip Silver State voters into submitting to ever-bigger government and ever-higher taxes.
Running Scared
Nevada’s tax-consuming establishment continues to use taxpayers’ resources to fight taxpayer relief
A fundamental problem exists with tax-financed public institutions, and at UNLV January 7 it was very much on display.
What Prop 13 was really all about
The systemic problem faced by Nevada property taxpayers and others is political
Deathly afraid that sky-high property tax rates in Nevada will trigger an historic tax revolt, members of the state’s tax-consuming class are clearly in a dither.
