Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Democrats in the state Assembly and Republicans in both houses agree on a plan to cut higher education by 13 percent, but Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford wants a cut of just 12 percent
There's no real difference between the parties. The consensus is always for tax-&-spend, big government.
The original University of Nevada (now UNR) was established (under the Nevada Constitution) to provide practical instruction in just three fields: Mining, Agriculture, and Engineering. It was endowed with sufficient capital to make it taxpayer independent from then on. The Constitution authorizes the Legislature to create other colleges as it deems necessary.
Over the years, for political reasons ("why should Raggio's district receive all the money?, and "Why can't dopes go to college also?"), the politicians have given us UNLV, CSN, NSC, DRI, and on and on. Along with that, we give scholarships to dimwit jocks to play football, support departments that have no objective methodologies, pay huge salaries to coaches and administrators (UNLV men's basketball coach makes $1M/yr!), enforce left-wing policies like affirmative action (quotas), push left-wing dogma like global warming, etc. Worst of all, Nevada taxpayers are expected to support all this to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Give the politicians power over education and it winds up like any other government spending program: costly and far beyond the scope of original intent.
The Legislature should identify every NSHE function that does not further the mission of those aforementioned 3 departments, deem them unnecessary, and vote them out of existence. The University endowment should be more than adequate to fund those core operations. If not, charge tuition to cover it. This would reduce taxpayers obligation to NSHE down to ZERO.
That's right.
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