Category: Economics
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Articles of Interest
Houston may pay down residents? personal debt ? up to $3,000 per person ? to help people buy homes (Texas Watchdog) “Houston taxpayers may foot the bill for people who want homes but can?t qualify for loans based on credit card debts, car loans or other bills.” Phony Stimulus?The Congressional Budget Office Tells It As…
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Wichita Tea Party
Wichita Tea Party This Friday
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Rumblings of pork protest — and a thank you — in Wichita
Friday February 27. 11:30 a.m. Mark the date. There will be protest in Wichita. Location: Farm Credit Bank Building, 245 N. Waco in Wichita. This is Senator Sam Brownback’s office. Our purpose is twofold: To thank Sen. Brownback for his vote against the pork-laden stimulus package, and to call attention to the nature of the…
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Articles of Interest
Socialism is Evil (Walter E. Williams) A reminder from Professor Williams of George Mason University as to why taxation is wrong, and it’s both political parties that are guilty. “The essence of socialism is the attenuation and ultimate abolition of private property rights. Attacks on private property include, but are not limited to, confiscating the…
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StopBailouts.net launched
Americans For Limited Government announces StopBailouts.net, an online petition in response to President Barack Obama’s $2.8 trillion financial plan to urge Congress to halt what ALG President Bill Wilson termed the ?greatest theft in human history.? ?Throughout 2008, and now into 2009, Congress, the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve have otherwise committed, appropriated, borrowed, and…
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Stimulus job creation in Kansas: wow
Sometimes you have to wonder about the magic numbers that proponents of government spending (or economic development) come up with. The Kansas Meadowlark explores a little arithmetic in his post 10,000 New Highway Jobs in Kansas? Brian Wilson Crunches the Numbers.
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Articles of Interest
Kansas Senate scraps higher fines for speeders along perilous roads (Jeanine Koranda, Wichita Eagle). In a defeat for Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, the Kansas senate decides to skip his plan for higher traffic fines along Wichita’s main east-west highway. Perhaps he’ll do better with entertainment zones. Upside-Down Economics (Michael Kinsley, Washington Post). In this column,…
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More coverage of Kansas Pork Protest
They’re the same photos that the Kansas Meadowlark took, but some different narrative. See Kansas Anti-Pork Revolt Draws 750 American Citizens!
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Protest Pork in Kansas: Report and Photos
The Kansas Meadowlark has a report with photographs of today’s protest at Representative Dennis Moore‘s office in Overland Park. Click on 500 in Overland Park brave cold, wind to protest stimulus, pork (photo essay) to see.
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Protest Pork in Kansas
Update: Report and photos of the event are here. ?A protest has been scheduled for ep. Dennis Moore?s office (D-KS) in Overland Park, KS on Sat. the 21st at 10 am in response to his support of the Stimulus Package.? Not many more details are available, but the post is from Michelle Malkin at Calling…
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Articles of Interest
25 random things about covering a capital murder trial. Wichita Eagle reporter Ron Sylvester offers surprising insights into covering a capital murder trial in a small Kansas city. The Misdirection of Resources and the Current Recession. From a talk given by Mario J. Rizzo. “I believe that recent experience supports the claim that the economist…
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Upside Down Economics (Thomas Sowell) “From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us. … What was lacking in the housing market, they say, was government regulation of the market’s ‘greed.’ That makes great moral…