The Institute's guiding principle on tax and fiscal policy is that limited government and low taxation rates are the best recipe for economic prosperity. Over-taxation and excessive government regulation of economic activity are both antithetic to America's founding principles, and detrimental to economic growth. NPRI's mission on tax and fiscal policy is to advance the free-market principles that are essential to a prosperous society.

Subpar accounting practices in Nevada government make it difficult for taxpayers to learn how hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are spent.

As Nevada's unemployment rate goes up, one wonders if the voters who said "yes" to a higher minimum wage in the November 2006 election are having second thoughts.

To reform NVPERS, our politicians would have to look beyond their next elections and selflessly put the greater good above their own retirement planning.

State and local governments in Nevada spend millions each year lobbying other levels of the government, and taxpayers get little if anything in return.

While most people practice intellectual self-discipline in their day-to-day lives, they often max out emotionally once they're in the voting booth.

Faced with a large and growing revenue shortfall, Gov. Jim Gibbons has worked successfully with state legislators to do the sensible thing and scale back the size of the state budget. Still, while the media are likely to chronicle this saga primarily as a triumph of bipartisan cooperation, the real moral of this story likely will be missed.

Las Vegas is a city built on the dream of getting something for nothing. But not only the tourists seek Lady Luck.

It has become increasingly clear that in the minds of those who make up Nevada's ever-expanding governing class, citizens exist first and foremost to feed the machinery of the state – thus allowing it to further grow in power and influence over us all.

The Senate's most recent action on the death tax took place in the Finance Committee earlier this month, in a hearing to consider "Alternatives to the Current Federal Estate Tax System." The hearing may as well have been titled "Redistribution by Another Name."

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.