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Corporatism Seizes the NV Legislature
Over the past dozen years, Nevada lawmakers have increasingly used their power to pick winners and losers in the economy. They have raised taxes on households and businesses and effectively handed over proceeds to favored competitors. That trend is reaching a crescendo in the 2023 legislative session. Back in 2011,… Read More
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Is Nevada really a high-tax state?
Debate over taxes in the 1997 Nevada Legislature brought forth the claim once again that the "per capita tax burden" in Nevada is unusually high by national standards, but is this true? In response to many inquiries, here are the facts.
Class size reduction is not the answer to Nevada’s failing education system
Education reform means different things to different people. To Governor Bob Miller, education reform means class size reduction of grades K-3 as evidenced in his recent State of the State address. But the policy has drawn fire from free market reformers since there are no studies which agree with the Governor’s claims of drastically improved achievement. Legislators during the 1995 session expressed their own skepticism with their votes and refused to approve class size reduction for third grades throughout the state. Yet Bob Miller continues to insist that if we are serious about improved education this policy must be implemented. Will the Governor succeed? Not likely … and here’s why.
Juvenile Justice: Community Courts
Juvenile Justice experiments have been popping up across the country, some with remarkable success. If Nevada implemented the simplest of these ideas, namely, Community Juvenile Courts, the state could profit from the innovation in four ways by: Saving already stretched legal resources and tax dollarsProviding long term guidance and aid to kids who have had their first brush with the lawTaking away the gang "badge of courage" that is, arrest and incarcerationCombining a volunteer workforce with trained judicial specialists