With its libertarian streak fading, Nevada will stagnate
That’s not to say the state hasn’t — or won’t continue to — change in some ways. We’re no longer that libertarian state we used to be, and it had been our identity as the libertarian state that had sustained us.
Newcomers have come to Nevada to escape taxes and that has changed the Nevada dynamic. They’ve made what was once a libertarian state more conservative. There have been more efforts to close the state’s legal brothels, to cite just one example.
Nevada has been unwilling in recent years to take the lead to break away from the traditional. Recreational marijuana use has failed twice when put to the voters. A ban on same-sex marriage has been added to the state’s constitution.
That’s not to say the state hasn’t — or won’t continue to — change in some ways. We’re no longer that libertarian state we used to be, and it had been our identity as the libertarian state that had sustained us.
Newcomers have come to Nevada to escape taxes and that has changed the Nevada dynamic. They’ve made what was once a libertarian state more conservative. There have been more efforts to close the state’s legal brothels, to cite just one example.
Nevada has been unwilling in recent years to take the lead to break away from the traditional. Recreational marijuana use has failed twice when put to the voters. A ban on same-sex marriage has been added to the state’s constitution.
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