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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday May 17, 2012
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday May 17, 2012Today: Watchdog reporter at Pachyderm; Kansas senators vote for cronyism; Koch = big oil?; Economic freedom; We aren’t Greece … yet.
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In Kansas, phony tax cut debate
Read more: In Kansas, phony tax cut debateSome who oppose cutting income tax rates in Kansas are using slight of hand to make the case that Kansas can’t afford to cut taxes.
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Wichita school spending: The grain of truth
Read more: Wichita school spending: The grain of truthThe Wichita school district, like most of the Kansas school spending establishment, uses spending figures containing a grain of truth to make a larger and misleading argument about school spending.
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Kansas tax reform is needed
Read more: Kansas tax reform is neededIn Kansas, lower income tax rates are needed to ensure that Kansas has a bright economic future. Failing to reform income tax rates will mean that Kansas will continue to under-perform other states.
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Corporations are people, too
Read more: Corporations are people, tooAttempts to “tax the rich” by taxing corporations don’t work, as we are the corporations, so to speak.
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Kansas could grow with lower taxes
Read more: Kansas could grow with lower taxesTwo research papers illustrate the need to reduce taxes in Kansas, finding that high taxes are associated with reduced income and low economic growth. Research such as this rebuts the presumption of government spending advocates that reducing taxes will kill jobs in Kansas.
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Myth: Markets can solve all problems without government at all
Read more: Myth: Markets can solve all problems without government at allIn much of the world, perhaps all of it, the basic problem is not only that governments do too much, but also that they do too little. But as they cease doing what they ought not to do, governments should start doing some of the things that would in fact increase justice and create the…
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Wichita taxicab regulations likely to impede progress
Read more: Wichita taxicab regulations likely to impede progressThe Wichita City Council will consider new taxicab regulations that, city hall hopes, will improve tax service in Wichita. But the regulations create high barriers to entry that stifle entrepreneurship and market competition, likely dooming the program to fail.
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Myth: All relations among humans can be reduced to market relations
Read more: Myth: All relations among humans can be reduced to market relationsAttempting to reduce all actions to a single motivation falsifies human experience. Not all human relationships are reducible to the same terms as markets; at the very least, those that involve involuntary “exchanges” are radically different, because they represent losses of opportunity and value, rather than opportunities to gain value.
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Palmer, activist for capitalism, to speak in Wichita
Read more: Palmer, activist for capitalism, to speak in WichitaTom G. Palmer, activist for capitalism and editor of the new book The Morality of Capitalism, will be in Wichita on May 16th.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday May 10, 2012
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday May 10, 2012Today: Kansas tax reform; School funding; Separation of art and state; Stimulus spending; Elizabeth Warren; Drug court to be Pachyderm topic; Failure of socialism to be shown; Yes we can! No they can’t!