Letter: Nevada thrives because of its private sector

Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001 | 8:30 a.m.

Brian Greenspun writes in his Nov. 25 column that any new tax increase "will affect me and my family at least as much and, most likely, far greater than almost every other person in the state." Despite this, he writes that a tax increase will "improve the state I love."

But what improves Nevada is private investment, not sending money to Kenny Guinn and those other 63 Carson City clowns. Large investments like developing Green Valley, Green Valley Ranch, Green Valley Ranch Station Casino and the new 1,900-acre master-planned community in North Las Vegas are where the people of Nevada want (and need) the Greenspun family money invested, not on government boondoggles.

Nevada thrives because the low tax environment encourages businesses to invest and retirees to settle in the state. Those businesses and retirees, in turn, create jobs and a great quality of life. Everything good in this state was created by entrepreneurs like Greenspun, Wynn, Adelson, and Molasky, not state government.

DOUGLAS E. FRENCH

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