Steven Miller
Nevada's Chronic Overspending and How to Deal With It
In recent decades a "Who Gets What" theory of government has come to dominate Nevada, the result being that state government has more and more degenerated into a tool for transferring some people's money into other people's pockets.
Foxes in the Henhouse
It’s an increasingly bizarre spectacle: The Guinn administration—working hand-in-glove with the Nevada Resort Association—is trying hard to stampede legislators into sticking Silver State citizens with heavy and unjustified new taxes.
The Destructive Impact of a Gross Receipts Tax
A gross receipts tax would create a whole new set of problems for Nevada's businesses and its citizens.
Why the Governor’s Tax-Hike Panel Failed
The Governor’s Task Force on Tax Policy has completed the specific tasks it was directed to do.
So why, then, did the panel fail to accomplish the most fundamental purpose for which it was formed?
Saving the Young AND the Budget
Wouldn’t it be great if Nevada could make truly major improvements in K-12 education and yet at the same time save hundreds of millions of dollars annually while avoiding destructive new taxes?
How SNWA Tries to ‘Soak’ Taxpayers
Pretend for a moment that you operate a golf course in Clark County. To irrigate that course, you need water, and you have two choices about how to obtain it.
A Stealth Income Tax
That so-called “gross receipts” tax being talked up by the Governor’s Task Force on Tax Policy would actually be a de facto income tax on Nevadans.
Hoover-nomics for Nevada?
Nevadans do not want their taxes raised for the purposes the governor and the Democratic tax hawks in the Nevada Assembly say they want to raise them.
Sepsis in the Banking System
One of the darker motifs of human history is that often the “expert” wisdom of an era turns out in retrospect to be little more than smug and lethal ignorance.
Let’s Leave the Bronze Age
At the root of many of Nevada’s persistent educational problems is a state law that has been on the books for almost 50 years.
