Victor Joecks
Where I’ll be this year
Where I’ll be this year Dear Friend, For the last seven Januarys, I’ve come to work here at the Nevada Policy Research Institute looking forward to a new year and…
Tesla numbers cast doubt on rosy Faraday projections
Lawmakers are currently in a special session in Carson City to consider a series of tax abatements and subsidies and new government programs for Faraday Future, an electric-car company that…
How to pay for eliminating ESA's 100-day requirement
By Victor Joecks December 7, 2015 There’s a way to pay for expanding Nevada’s near-universal Education Savings Account program to students currently enrolled in private schools, without…
LCB: Nevada tax increases total $1.5 billion
By Victor Joecks The tax hikes passed during the 2015 Nevada Legislative Session ended up around $160 million larger than Gov. Brian Sandoval originally said, topping…
How the Taxpayer Protection Pledge ensures compromise, not capitulation
“Shaping the path,” a term used by brothers Chip and Dan Heath in their book Switch: How to change things when change is hard, describes how environmental factors change people’s behavior — often without conscious recognition.
2015 Nevada Legislative Session Review and Report Card
Executive Summary On November 5, 2014, Nevada woke up to a vastly different state politically. Voters had…
Why the Taxpayer Protection Pledge has such predictive power
In their book Switch: How to change things when change is hard, brothers Chip and Dan Heath identify three factors that influence how individuals make decisions — willpower, emotions…
Payday loan regulations designed to wipe out industry, limit consumer choice
Federal regulators are on the verge of imposing crushing new rules on the much-maligned payday loan industry.
Margin tax vs. commerce tax: same fundamentals, different particulars
There has been much debate over the differences between and similarities of the margin tax and the newly imposed commerce tax, especially with efforts to repeal the commerce tax…