Need to fix Nevada's long broken tax structure and education

Damn straight! In today’s Reno Gazette-Journal, Pamela Galloway had a most excellent letter to the editor about the need to reform the tax structure here in Nevada. I’ll reprint it below, since it should have a wider distribution, but not before I make a couple comments.

Our star boarder, the African princess, Natacha, is looking for cheaper/better places to continue working toward her nursing degree. And, we’re getting an interesting picture of the costs of a secondary education here and elsewhere … and what you get for the money.

Not only is getting an education much more expensive here in Nevada, but the academic advisors at Truckee Meadows Community College, and at UNR have given her so much bad advice that it’s cost her dearly both in time and money spent on courses she didn’t even need. This doesn’t even address the whole issue of how much she pays as a foreign student here on a Student Visa. That is billed at the Out of State/Non-Resident rate. Ouch. It’s about twice what your kid is paying.

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