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Tax increment financing: The right tool for Wichita jobs?
Read more: Tax increment financing: The right tool for Wichita jobs?Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is an economic development tool that uses the expected growth (or increment) in property tax revenues from a designated geographic area of a municipality to finance bonds used to pay for goods and services calculated to spur growth in the TIF district. The analysis performed for this study found TIF does…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday November 10, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday November 10, 2011Today: Occupy Wall Street; Johnson Controls; Save-A-Lot store opens; Teacher pay; Ranzau, Skelton to speak; Making economics come alive; Economics in two minutes.
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Focus on Kansas school funding formula is a distraction
Read more: Focus on Kansas school funding formula is a distractionAs Kansas struggles with a formula for financing schools, we’re losing an opportunity to examine our schools and see if they’re performing as well as they should, both financially and academically
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Libertarianism site launched
Read more: Libertarianism site launchedLibertarianism.org provides a resource covering liberty and its benefits.
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Wichita Eagle on KPERS misses the mark
Read more: Wichita Eagle on KPERS misses the markA recent editorial by Phillip Brownlee far understates the magnitude of the problem with Kansas Public Employee Retirement System, or KPERS, and fails to recognize problems with possible solutions.
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Giving away the store to get a store
Read more: Giving away the store to get a storeWichita will again chase the dream of “something for nothing” when it considers establishing a tax increment financing, or TIF, district at its December 6th meeting. The following article explains why this is a bad idea.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday November 3, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday November 3, 2011Today: Energy bill to be introduced today; Crony capitalism disputed; Kansans For No Income Tax; Misguided efforts to improve capitalism; Markets: exploitation or empowerment?
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The use of regulation by business, contrary to markets
Read more: The use of regulation by business, contrary to marketsBusiness often uses government regulation as way to harm its competitors or gain advantage for itself, which is contrary to the principles of free markets and capitalism.
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Huelskamp on spending, health information database, and Buffett
Read more: Huelskamp on spending, health information database, and BuffettAddressing members and guests of the Wichita Pachyderm Club last Friday, U.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp of the Kansas first district updated the audience on national spending and debt, a health information database that poses privacy risks, and Warren Buffett’s taxes.
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School choice savings not being considered in Kansas
Read more: School choice savings not being considered in KansasAccording to the reporting surrounding the revision of the Kansas school finance formula, Kansas is overlooking a sure way to save money and improve Kansas schools: widespread school choice.
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Johnson Controls loan not needed
Read more: Johnson Controls loan not neededThe Sedgwick County Commission will consider making a forgivable loan that is not needed.
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Pompeo to introduce ‘Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act’
Read more: Pompeo to introduce ‘Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act’U. S. Representative Mike Pompeo of Wichita plans to introduce the “Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act,” a bill that would eliminate all tax credits related to energy.