Even though I don’t believe that I am the biggest obstacle to Dina Titus raising taxes on Nevada families, it is pretty clear that she does.
Here’s another area where Dina is mistaken - her claim that Nevada is at the top of all the bad lists.
Forbes has published an article ranking America’s most sinful cities. […]
Our political leaders sometimes suggest that Nevada is at the “bottom of all the good lists” and “top of all the bad lists,” and that they want to tax us out of this statistical black hole.
Here is a list we’re at the top of - tax hikes per person from 2002-2007.
Another sign that Nevada is […]
Today, Nevada workers got an official indicator of how hard they’ve been hit by our economic downturn. Nevada’s hidden income tax, named the “Modified Business Tax”, came up short of projections by $13-million over the three months ending September 30.
This tax is .62 of one percent of wages paid. When you divide the $13-million shortfall […]
The Las Vegas Sun consistently editorializes for higher taxes and expansion of government.
I spent some time this afternoon with a reporter there, whose editor co-worker had sent him this chart cherry-picked from the Tax Foundation website that ranks Nevada 48th in state government spending per capita.
The editor did not deem it worthy to include this […]
Nevada’s DETR publishes a monthly statistical compliation and analysis called “Nevada Economy In Brief.” I got the latest month’s issue over the weekend. Here’s a link for those of you who want to follow along at home, but here are the current highlights…
After you adjust out all the teachers who went back to work in […]
Nevada’s original lefty blogger, Brian Greenspun, started off his column in yesterday’s Sunday Sun by noting state tax revenue is down a little bit below projections, though still much higher than last year, with heartfelt woe:
What to do? Oh, what to do? How about cut the budgets for higher education, health care and other places […]
People who want to expand government services faster than Nevada’s population is growing are fond of describing our state system of taxation as “unstable” or having a “structural deficit.” They also often state how poorly government services are funded, teachers are paid, poor people are treated, diseases are cured, etc., especially compared to back where […]
