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Kansas Lags in Initiative and Referendum
Read more: Kansas Lags in Initiative and ReferendumOn Saturday I traveled to Oklahoma City to attend “Reforming the Reform Process: How to Restore Oklahoma’s Initiative.” What I learned is that Oklahomans are concerned with reforming a valuable citizen right that doesn’t exist at all in Kansas. The initiative process allows citizens to place a question on a ballot to be voted on…
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Public Charter Schools Help Students and Save Tax Dollars
Read more: Public Charter Schools Help Students and Save Tax DollarsThis press release spotlights the fact that charter schools operate much more efficiently than to public schools. Kansas could save money and increase parent satisfaction if our state had more charter schools. The education establishment in Kansas — the teachers unions, administrators, and school boards — are happy with as few charter schools as possible,…
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What Part of Involuntary Servitude Don’t You Understand?
Read more: What Part of Involuntary Servitude Don’t You Understand?Community service: involuntary servitude dressed in polite language. Change … Obama Announces Creation Of His Marxist Youth Corps. See also Emanuel Discusses Compulsory Civilian Youth Force.
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Kansas School Spending May Be Cut
Read more: Kansas School Spending May Be CutAs reported the Kansas Liberty story Governor’s budget office recommends cuts in K-12 spending, K-12 spending in Kansas may be cut. As the Kansas budget is under extreme pressure, if the governor suggests cutting spending, the legislature is probably very happy to go along. The irony is that since several school districts in Kansas, including…
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United States Government Spending (dot com)
Read more: United States Government Spending (dot com)I recently discovered usgovernmentspending.com. It seems like a great place to get data not only for the federal government, but for the states, too.
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Bailouts National and Local
Read more: Bailouts National and LocalA post at the Wichita Eagle Editorial blog titled Either way, taxpayers will pay for failing GM illustrates how when government and business become highly intertwined, a self-sustaining behemoth is created that can’t be slain. We say an example of this locally this year in Wichita, when a taxpayer subsidy to a development turned out…
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In Kansas, Tax Increases Loom
Read more: In Kansas, Tax Increases LoomAs Kansas confronts a disastrous budget, the danger of tax increases is large. As reported by David Klepper in Shortfall means painful budget cuts for Kansas, “Because of declining tax revenue, Kansas faces a $1 billion deficit in next year’s budget, on top of a more than $140 million shortfall in the current budget year.”…
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A Change in Climate for Climate Change Policy
Read more: A Change in Climate for Climate Change PolicyFrom our friends at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, one of the many outstanding state-level research institutes working for liberty and free markets. A Change in Climate for Climate Change Policy By Kathleen Hartnett White November 5, 2008 Come what dramatic political and economic changes may occur, a refrain persists within the media, industry, and…
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Pencils Reveal the Impossibility of Government Planning
Read more: Pencils Reveal the Impossibility of Government PlanningI, Pencil is one of the most important and influential writings that explain the necessity for limited government. A simple object that we may not give much thought to, the story of the pencil illustrates the importance of markets and the impossibility of centralized economic planning. The size and scope of government, both at the…
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Kansas highway spending has not boosted economy
Read more: Kansas highway spending has not boosted economyWho isn’t in favor of good streets and highways? Don’t we need roads, highways, and bridges so that our economy can function? The problem with most studies that pump up the benefit of government spending is that they omit something very important: the cost of these projects, and who pays. A solution that I favor…
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Climate change resource center launched
Read more: Climate change resource center launchedWhen evaluating the claims of radical environmental extremists, people need accurate and reliable information about global warming and climate change. To this end, I’ve started a Climate Change Resource Center page, where readers can find links to reliable sources of information.
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Top 100 libertarian blogs. I’m in.
Read more: Top 100 libertarian blogs. I’m in.Sarah Scrafford has produced a very useful list: The Top 100 Libertarian Blogs. I’m happy to report that my blog, The Voice For Liberty in Wichita, made the cut.