The Tax Foundation finds that Nevada now ranks 25th in state and local government spending per person. Fully half the states accomplish their goals of state and local government with less money per person.
This website was created to help Nevadans learn how government is spending all of this money. Browse by topic (above and right) or chronologically (below).
Posted by Webmaster on March 18, 2009 under News
Bill Raggio, who calls people who don’t want to hike taxes “John Birchers”, is furious. So are all of Nevada’s political media employees.
Governor Gibbons has kept all his promises – he deferred to a vote of the people on a tax hike but refused to actually sign the bill. Tax hikers – the usual gang who believes there’s just never enough government – had been counting on his signature as part of their political cover. “See,” they were planning on explaining to angry constituents, “even Jim Gibbons was in favor.”
And the Media-Socialism-Influence Peddling Complex is very, very angry.
Posted by Webmaster on November 9, 2008 under Economy In Brief
Here’s the December 2007 Nevada Economy In Brief.
Highlights:
- At the beginning of the year, Government represented 12.02% of Nevada’s jobs.
- Although it is just a small portion of overall jobs, it provided 69% of the new jobs created during 2007.
- Nevada added 5,800 government jobs and 2,600 private-sector jobs during 2007.
- Statewide, government jobs paid the highest average wages, beating construction and mining, high tech and medicine.
These numbers are on page 3 of the Economy In Brief. Subsequent pages break out individual cities and counties. Most of the government growth was local government employees in the Las Vegas metropolitan statistical area.
