Nevada Policy’s latest edition of the Piggy Book — a glimpse into the world of government waste in Nevada — is finally here!

And you won’t believe the examples of waste we managed to dig up for this edition — like how the Nevada DMV wasted millions of tax dollars on a failed computer upgrade by hiring a contractor whose staff couldn’t even speak English!

We have put together this book to give you, the Nevada taxpayer, a glimpse into the into some of the more staggering examples of government waste — the kinds of stories that make one wonder just what else government is throwing our tax dollars after.

So, enjoy this digital version of the Nevada Piggy Book! We certainly enjoyed writing it — even if we did have to suffer through seeing the myriad ways government flushes our hard-earned dollars down the drain.

Download the PDF version of the Nevada Piggy Book today! 

July 2019 Update: News reports now suggest that the Nevada DMV fiasco could be more than just simple incompetence and government waste. The amount wasted has now ballooned to $26 million. Additionally, while the failed Nevada DMV computer upgrade initially looked like a story of simple incompetence and negligence, new evidence suggests that such “incompetence” could very well be blatant corruption. (Read more at the Las Vegas Review-Journal)

August 2019 Update: Taxpayers will continue to pay for the mistakes made by the Nevada DMV, after the Legislature approved a $1 fee added to all DMV transactions through 2022. The Senate GOP filed a lawsuit to invalidate this tax increase, however, which you can read about here.