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Geoffrey Lawrence

Geoffrey Lawrence serves as fiscal policy analyst at NPRI.  Geoffrey conducts research on state and local issues concerning taxation, government spending, and fiscal transparency and accountability.


Publications :
Policy Studies

The 2009 Nevada Legislative Session

Nevada’s Freedom Budget 2009-2011

Tax Dollar Performance in Nevada

Rolling the Dice on the Taxpayers’ Dime

NPRI's Recommendations for Cost-Cutting and Reform


Commentaries

Could PERS be a silver bullet?

The magical language of special session

Wait … you say there’s a recession?

About that TASC amendment

Well, duh…

To fix health-care costs, begin with prices

Puppetmasters on the throne

Why play ball?

What revenue problem?

The voluntary special session

Culinary sells out, taxpayers on the hook

Nevada’s future is at stake

Breeding pessimism: Part II

Breeding pessimism: Part I

Got limits on power?

A ‘vision’ of extortion and control

Legislature performs poorly

The triumph of delusion

The truth will set you free

IFC to hide behind unelected stakeholders

Nevadans deserve honesty from IFC

Putting a price on government-run health care

PERS reforms do not go far enough

Is Energy Summit about ends or means?

Personal and portable

Highly combustible situation

Health care for the newly unemployed

Exit fee

Playing with the PERS

Cap-and-trade conflicts with Nevada’s mandates

Raising the minimum unemployment rate

Support for tax hikes relies on economic fallacies

What rule of law?

New tax a wrong turn for Nevada

A slap in the face

Voodoo economics don’t hold water

The one-way bet

ABCs of S-P-E-N-D-I-N-G

Your move, Carson

Foe of the environment? Back ‘renewable energy’

Forcing you to buy what you don’t want

Government failure

Smokes and booze for the children

Setting up the 2011 spending spree

LVRDA tries to scam the public

Greenspan and Bernanke’s war on Nevada

Speaker scrutinizing subsidies

Old Vegas lives

Riding the downward spiral

It’s Reno’s redevelopment model that needs renovation

Why is Culinary alone?

The power of the PERS

Plenty of waste to swing at

Artificially low tuition retards Nevada higher education

Consumer choice is better than government choice

Welcome to the long run

Why Nevada's cost of government is high

Calls for tax hikes rely on faulty data

Legislature addresses imaginary ‘shortfall'

Union attempts to hold essential services hostage

Playing with fire

Corporate welfare, corruption and the ‘blight' of the poor

Bursting the spending balloon

Less Is More

Is the tax structure broken?

Putting utilities on the dole

Blame it on regulators, or on regulation?


Blogs :

Leading by example

Clark County irritated at LVRDA

Having his cake and eating it too

Rothbard on Bush, Obama

Surprise, surprise

We should all be so lucky

Possible tax increase coming today!!! Update: Passes

Authority for county tax hikes could be approved today; Update: Tax fails

Clark County gets it right

Got despotism?

The untenable nature of NV state employee pay raises

Under-the-radar taxation

Ruling class becoming too big for britches

Taxing charity?






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