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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.
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Greenpeace and allies again attack Koch Industries
Read more: Greenpeace and allies again attack Koch IndustriesLast week saw the release of two reports criticizing Koch Industries for its opposition to heavy-handed regulation of the chemical industry.
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Guitar makers and players targeted by onerous laws
Read more: Guitar makers and players targeted by onerous lawsToday the Wall Street Journal reports again on startling examples of overcriminalization, with federal authorities conducting raids on businesses based on aggressive enforcement of broad and vague laws.
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For Wichita’s Project Downtown, goal keeps slipping
Read more: For Wichita’s Project Downtown, goal keeps slippingIn selling a plan for the revitalization of downtown Wichita, promoters started with a promise of much private investment for just a little public investment. But as the plan proceeded, the goal kept slipping, and the first project to be approved under the final plan will probably not come close to meeting even the modest…
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KNEA: Let’s just raise taxes
Read more: KNEA: Let’s just raise taxesFor KNEA, the Kansas National Education Association and our state’s teachers union, the solution to all problems is as simple as raising taxes and hoping the union’s critics will stop talking.