Then donate your own money to fund and operate it. Don't force taxpayers to pay for your love of bad art like we had to pay for the ugly monstrosity known as Greenspun Hall at UNLV.

"It will cost us our most productive researchers who bring in the most outside funding, it would scare away potential donors, and it will encourage our best students to go elsewhere."

Wait a minute Dr. Parker. Above you said that research grants can't be used for instructional purposes. Thus they aren't actually making money for the University that can be used to teach students.

So what is the point, besides a little contradiction?

and here I thought you wanted more people to get health insurance coverage...then you go and advocate making it more expensive.

Ah, so the old regulation didn't work. Now we have to ramp up the regulation.

Not to mention NSHE has seen appropriation increases that have been 3 times larger than the annual growth in inflation since 2001.

In 2007 the state appropriations to NSHE amounted to $13,000 per student!!!!!!!!!!!

Parker misleads too. He uses some pretty dubious stats himself, like the 50% cut in higher ed (completely misleading) while also making claims which can be proven false. Like states taking advantage of economy of scale - false.

His only points to make are, Nevada's taxes on residents are low, tax collection is moderate. But this in no way proves government is underfunded. He assumes this, making a fallacy in the process.

For example, you can't prove god exists by assuming god exists. This is exactly what Dr. Parker does.

I should also add that Andrew Clinger projected that $2.3 billion number using June 2008 CPI. Since then the CPI has fallen 4.5 percentage points.

You may have noticed with gas prices being half priced now compared to this summer.

This created an artificially high imaginary shortfall number to begin with.

Gibbons' real problem is that he let a big government moron do the budget math. The state is NOT facing a $2.3 billion crisis.

The $2.3 billion is a number that represents a 17% increase in WHAT THEY WANTED to spend in the last biennium. Thus they are adding the existing shortfall to an imaginary one.

The real cut is $200 million. A 1% decrease. I don't know if its Mr. Coolican that thinks a 1% decrease is a crisis or if this is the propaganda his bosses at the Sun are pushing, but ironically the SUN was the first newspaper to get this fact right - then never to repeat it again. Shame on you Sun.

J,

Being sexually abused in your youth does not make prostitution bad. It makes being sexually abused in your youth bad.