Abstract

THE CALIFORNIA Journal of Politics & Policy Volume 3, Issue 2 Nevada’s 2010 Budget: Dependency, Denial, and Disaster Robert P. Morin Western Nevada College Great Basin Policy Research Institute of the University of Nevada, Reno Abstract January 2010 arrived with the realization that Nevada’s budget crisis had become worse. Sales and gaming tax revenues were again lower than anticipated and the state economy continued to decline. Governor Jim Gibbons called a special ses- sion of the legislature in February to address an anticipated hole in the budget. But, driven by the politics of fiscal conservatism fueled by denial, Nevada faces a potential fiscal disaster in 2011. Keywords: Nevada budget, Nevada politics, taxes, state budgets www.bepress.com/cjpp

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