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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday September 12, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday September 12, 2011Today: TIF not good for everyone, it seems; Wichita City Council; Williams lecture not noticed; Energy and politics to be topic; Pompeo on ideological internships; Spending to create jobs; Kansas education summit; Why liberals should like libertarian ideas.
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Walter Williams on doing good
Read more: Walter Williams on doing goodEconomist Walter Williams told a Wichita audience that when government is used in an attempt to do good, it requires either elimination or attenuation of private property and market forces. But it is private property and the desire for more that motivates people to do difficult and laborious things that benefit their fellow man. It…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday September 9, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday September 9, 2011Today: A citizen call to action; Troubles with Kansas City tax increment financing; Effects of stimulus on hiring; Kansas education summit; Why should conservatives like libertarian ideas?
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Walter Williams: Government must stick to its limited and legitimate role
Read more: Walter Williams: Government must stick to its limited and legitimate roleEconomist Walter E. Williams spoke on the legitimate role of government in a free society, touching on the role of government as defined in the Constitution, the benefits of capitalism and private property, and the recent attacks on individual freedom and limited government.
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In Wichita, how tax increment financing can channel tax money
Read more: In Wichita, how tax increment financing can channel tax moneyThe flow of tax dollars Wichita city leaders have planned for Douglas Place, a proposed hotel in Wichita, creates a mechanism where taxpayer funds are routed to a politically-connected construction firm. And unlike the real world, where developers have an incentive to build economically, the city has created incentives for Douglas Place developers to spend…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday September 6, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday September 6, 2011Today: Live music example of overcriminilization, regulation in Wichita; Tax reform in Kansas; Downtown Wichita site launched; Juvenile justice system to be topic; Campaign contributions flow to Wichita’s subsidy supporters; Organ events; Urban planning in Wichita: an outside perspective.
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Wichita’s high tax hotels
Read more: Wichita’s high tax hotelsCommunity improvement district, or CID, taxes are often targeted at visitors to Wichita, and harm our city’s reputation.
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Real Development’s troubles should be red flag for Wichita
Read more: Real Development’s troubles should be red flag for WichitaRecent new stories that a prominent Wichita office building developed and owned by Real Development suffers from severe problems should cause the City of Wichita to halt any new partnerships being considered with the company, and to seek to remove itself from agreements that exist.
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Our Downtown Wichita launched
Read more: Our Downtown Wichita launchedAs part of an effort to provide information about the Douglas Place project, a proposed renovation of a downtown Wichita office building into a hotel, Americans for Prosperity, Kansas has created a website. The site’s motto is “Limited government and free markets in Downtown Wichita benefit everyone. Centralized planning and crony capitalism benefit only a…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday August 29, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday August 29, 2011Today: Wichita City Council; Government and business; Developer welfare shop opened; ‘Kansans United’ formed; Kansas education summit; No Wichita Pachyderm this week; Myths of capitalism.