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Nevada makes The Economist (look bad)
From the latest issue of “The Economist” magazine:
Nevada has long been a low-tax, low-services state. But its culture is changing. The working-class Latinos who have moved there, often from California, are less libertarian and keener on public services than older whites. In November voters in Reno and Las Vegas approved an increase in hotel taxes to pay for schools. They also handed control of the state Senate to Democrats for the first time since 1993. The new political majority will need to keep the state attractive to business. The worst outcome for Nevada is that it acquires California’s taxes and dismal business climate but not its talent pool or coastal breezes.
How embarrasing! A second, though less-respected, national publication gets it wrong about Nevada.
In fact, Nevada’s tax burden, when you include taxes on residents and taxes on Nevadans, holds the 25th rank for services – hardly “low-services”. The Economist will almost certainly not correct it’s error as quickly as the Wall Street Journal last week. That’s what makes them less-respected.
