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We can balance the budget without new taxes
Read more: We can balance the budget without new taxesPoliticians and interest groups claim higher taxes are necessary because it would be impossible to cut spending by enough to get rid of red ink. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video shows that these assertions are nonsense. The budget can be balanced very quickly by simply limiting the annual growth of federal spending.
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More left-wing hatred, less facts
Read more: More left-wing hatred, less factsReason points out how New York Times columnist Frank Rich simply does not understand the issues he’s trying to cover. Either that, or he simply lies to make his left-wing, anti-capitalist political points.
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Hawker Beechcraft might not be viable, in Wichita or Louisiana
Read more: Hawker Beechcraft might not be viable, in Wichita or LouisianaNews reports that the state of Louisiana has lured Wichita-based Hawker Beechcraft to relocate there is being greeted — understandably — with grave concern by Wichitans and Kansans. But Louisiana may be buying — and Wichita possibly losing — a company that isn’t viable, at least in its present form.
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Drury request for more Broadview Hotel subsidy should be rejected
Read more: Drury request for more Broadview Hotel subsidy should be rejectedTomorrow’s meeting of the Wichita City Council features a public hearing on the creation of a Community Improvement District to benefit Drury Southwest, developer of the Broadview Hotel in downtown Wichita.
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Republican House candidates to speak
Read more: Republican House candidates to speakThis Friday October 8, 2010, at the Wichita Pachyderm Club, South Central Kansas Republican Candidates for the Kansas House of Representatives will speak. The invited candidates are:
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Some Goody Clancy Wichita findings not credible
Read more: Some Goody Clancy Wichita findings not credibleLast week Boston planning firm Goody Clancy presented its master plan for the revitalization of downtown Wichita. As this plan is now part of the political landscape in Wichita, we ought to take a critical look at some of its components.
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Raj Goyle tax cut votes not exactly as advertised
Read more: Raj Goyle tax cut votes not exactly as advertisedIn his campaign, Democratic Party candidate for Congress Raj Goyle says he has voted to cut taxes 50 times. Examination of the record shows some genuine votes against taxes, but also examples of voting with the herd, and some votes that actually increase taxes on most Kansans.
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Socialism embraced in Washington today
Read more: Socialism embraced in Washington todayI’m not one to throw around charges of socialism lightly. For one thing, the term has devolved to have several meanings, and it’s not always clear which of the several meanings the speaker or writer intends. It’s also a highly charged term that usually overstates the case when it is used. Cathy Young explained in…
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Bankrupting America says ‘spending just got personal’
Read more: Bankrupting America says ‘spending just got personal’The new website Bankrupting America features a video presentation of poll results that reveal that a strong majority of Americans — seven out of ten — feel that government spending is too high, and nearly as many say this spending affects them personally.
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Good intentions, and planners, can sap a city’s soul
Read more: Good intentions, and planners, can sap a city’s soulThe following article by Kansas City writer Jack Cashill, courtesy of Ingram’s Magazine, explains some of the problems with city planning of the type Wichita is undertaking at this time.
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Subsidy for Planeview Save-A-Lot grocery store bad for Wichita
Read more: Subsidy for Planeview Save-A-Lot grocery store bad for WichitaI am troubled by what I see the Wichita city government doing to the owners of the Checkers Grocery store located near the Wichita Planeview neighborhood. At the public hearing before the Wichita City Council on September 14th, one of the Checkers owners testified that their grocery business has been serving the people of Planeview…