One thought about a way to save money big time. Just shut down the Clark County School District for a year. They are the most expensive and ineffective public agency in the state.

I pay to send my kid to daycare, so all the moms and dads who use the schools as a babysitter can start paying to care for their kids too.

I am tired of the smug pundits including Jon Ralston and some casino owners talking about a "broad based business tax".

Do these idiots realize now many call center jobs exist in the southeast BECAUSE there is no franchise tax or corporate income tax here? The call centers can pack up and move 1000 jobs in a few months, if it appears that their cost of doing business here is going up more than they want.

That's exactly what Client Logic did here, when their unemployment tax went too high. They bought another company, changed their name to Sitel, and moved 500 jobs to New Mexico. Did any of these pundits write about the loss of the Client Logic jobs? No.

When you're 25 years old, with only a high school diploma, and can't get a job at a casino because the Mexicans have a lock on the $10 to $13 per hour jobs there, all you can do to pay the rent, and feed your kid is work at a call center.

But of course, the assh*les and idiots who make and influence policy in this state do not have a clue about the potential job losses a broad based business tax would cost.

Ever heard of zappos.com? EIGHTY MILLION GROSS INCOME projected this year, out of one call center. They moved here because there is no income or franchise tax. They can move again just as easily.

By the way, "Tax Free Texas" just adopted a huge franchise tax on the GROSS income of all Texas businesses GROSSING more than $500,000. Every company that can feasibly move out of Texas is talking about doing so. The Texas Legislature has met 3 times, trying to amend the law to staunch the job outflow, but companies understand one thing: Once a state sets up a bureaucracy to collect taxes, when the state wants even more taxes they already have the people and computers in place to collect it.

Does anyone remember No Income Tax New Jersey? Its now the highest taxed state in the USA.

So Jon Ralston, before you or MGM Mirage or the opinion makers and legislators say Nevada should adopt a broad based business tax, why don't you come down to south east Las Vegas and Henderson and talk to us about where you are going to find the call center workers new jobs. Maybe you can convince the casinos to get rid of the people with phony Green Cards and arrange direct job transfers for all of the call center workers.

I am tired of the pundits including Jon Ralston and some casino owners talking about a "broad based business tax".

Do these idiots realize now many call center jobs exist in the southeast BECAUSE there is no franchise tax or corporate income tax here? The call centers can pack up and move 1000 jobs in a few months, if it appears that their cost of doing business here is going up more than they want.

That's exactly what Client Logic did here, when their unemployment tax went too high. They bought another company, changed their name to Sitel, and moved 500 jobs to New Mexico. Did any of these pundits write about the loss of the Client Logic jobs? No.

When you're 25 years old, with only a high school diploma, and can't get a job at a casino because the Mexicans have a lock on the $10 to $13 per hour jobs there, all you can do to pay the rent, and feed your kid is work at a call center.

But of course, the assh*les and idiots who make and influence policy in this state do not have a clue about the potential job losses a broad based business tax would cost.

Ever heard of zappos.com? EIGHTY MILLION GROSS INCOME projected this year, out of one call center. They moved here because there is no income or franchise tax. They can move again just as easily.

By the way, "Tax Free Texas" just adopted a huge franchise tax on the GROSS income of all Texas businesses GROSSING more than $500,000. Every company that can feasibly move out of Texas is talking about doing so. The Texas Legislature has met 3 times, trying to amend the law to staunch the job outflow, but companies understand one thing: Once a state sets up a bureaucracy to collect taxes, when the state wants even more taxes they already have the people and computers in place to collect it.

Does anyone remember No Income Tax New Jersey? Its now the highest taxed state in the USA.

So Jon Ralston, before you or the opinion makers and legislators say Nevada should adopt a broad based business tax, why don't you come down to south east Las Vegas and Henderson and talk to us about where you are going to find the call center workers new jobs. Maybe you can convince the casinos to get rid of the people with phony Green Cards and arrange direct job transfers for all of the call center workers.

It didn't take long for the CCSD spin machine to gin up some numbers for this Las Vegas Sun story, and then sucker Emily Richmond into believing them.

The 2006-2007 figures in the chart published in today's Sun are a crock. Why? Because Nevada law requires that minors be regularly enrolled in and attend school until they are 18 years old. As a result, students are not allowed to quit school to work full time.

The more accurate summary of why CCSD has a more than 50% high school drop out rate is illustrated in the 2005-2006 statistics.

The 2005-2006 statistics show that 23.7% of the students failed to pass the state-required proficiency exam and as a result, they were not given diplomas. The statistics on the 2005 -2006 chart also show that an additional 21.7% were "credit deficient". That means, in plain English, the students could not pass the courses which the CCSD requires for a student to graduate. Had research been done at that time, it's likely the vast majority of the "credit deficient" students did not pass the required math courses.

Which takes us back to last week's stories. The CCSD's elementary school students have not been sufficiently instructed in math in order to handle junior high math, and pass an internal district test math prepared by a Dr. Hanlon.

The CCSD's junior high students have not been sufficiently instructed in math in order to handle first year high school math or the internal district math test prepared by Dr. Hanlon.

Bottom line, the CCSD's schools are incapable of teaching mathematics in a way which will allow the 40 to 50% of high school students who do not get diplomas to pass both the "State Math Proficiency Exam" and the District's "Algebra I" course.

This new spin and b*llsh*t coming from CCSD headquarters, blaming a bad economony for the district's astronomical failure to graduate rate, are being developed in an effort to convince voters to vote for a massive new tax to build more schools.

The CCSD in a nutshell: Exhausted or indifferent teachers, shell shocked and self-important school level administrators, and back stabbing self aggrandizing district level officials.

Vote No on the upcoming school bond.

Tell your legislators to go ahead and cut 14%-22% out of the CCSD's budget when the Legislature next meets, because, when looking at the end product of the CCSD's educational system, it has a failure rate in excess of 50%. Throwing lots of money at a problem obviously has not fixed it.

These kids don't "drop out". The district fails them, and the kids simply do not get a high school degree.

It sounds like Floyd Hale is doing a reasonably good job trying to protect the victims from harassment by the malpractice defense attorneys, who are in my personal opinion the scum of the earth.

However, I have a practical suggestion for members of the public to express their disgust with Dr. Desai & Co. Let's out all the malpractice defense attorneys by making their names as prominent as Dr. Desai.

So here's the first lower than a snake defense attorney "Daniel Curriden". Shun the guy at church and in his neighborhood. Don't let your kids play with his kids. Kick his wife out of the junior league. Lose his reservations when he goes out to dinner. Make Curriden and each of the other malpractice defense attorneys as famous as Glen Lerner.

It's not Dr. Desai & Co. who are going to emotionally brutalize the victims. It's Daniel Curriden and his ilk.