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Our Economic Past — Equality, Markets, and Morality
Read more: Our Economic Past — Equality, Markets, and MoralityFree markets may yield odd results and certainly unequal outcomes, but the greater opportunities and prosperity have made the tradeoff worthwhile for American society. From Our Economic Past ~ Equality, Markets, and Morality by Burton Folsom, Jr., posted at the Foundation for Economic Education.
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Booted from White House Conference Call
Read more: Booted from White House Conference CallMy friend Leslie Carbone was Booted from White House Conference Call. By the way, Leslie is the author of Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform, which will be published in May 2009. I can’t wait.
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Wichita School Bond: Was Safety Important in 2000 at College Hill Elementary?
Read more: Wichita School Bond: Was Safety Important in 2000 at College Hill Elementary?Today, three College Hill Elementary School staff members (Casey McConnell, Kathleen Endsley, and Jacqueline Henning) write to the Wichita Eagle with this complaint about their school, and a question too: But like many schools in the district, it does not have a safe room for use in a tornado warning. … It has been stated…
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Wichita School Bond Man-on-the-Street Video
Read more: Wichita School Bond Man-on-the-Street VideoAt the Wichita School Bond channel on YouTube, there are some new man-on-the-street video interviews available.
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Dry-Cleaning Economics in One Lesson
Read more: Dry-Cleaning Economics in One LessonThe Foundation for Economic Education reports that an American clothes hanger company has succeeded in persuading the government to slap a tariff on its foreign competitors. Who wins? …the tariff is expected to cost some $212,765 for each of the 564 jobs saved. … The lesson is that the misguided attempt to save jobs for…
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Do We Know if Enrollment Numbers Support Wichita School Bond Issue?
Read more: Do We Know if Enrollment Numbers Support Wichita School Bond Issue?Writing in the Wichita Eagle Editorial Blog, Phillip Brownlee writes “Some opponents of the USD 259 bond issue have argued that the district shouldn?t need more classroom space because its enrollment has been fairly flat since the 2000 bond issue.” He then goes on to make the case for the district needing more schools and…
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Wichita School Bond Not Alone in Kansas
Read more: Wichita School Bond Not Alone in KansasBesides the proposed school bond issue in Wichita, several other communities are planning elections for their own bond issues. In Girard, a proposed school bond issue of $24.4 million would have 47% paid for by the state of Kansas (Board sets scope of proposed bond issue). In Baldwin City, a $22.9 million bond issue will…
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Wall Street Crisis Fruit of Government, Not Free Markets
Read more: Wall Street Crisis Fruit of Government, Not Free MarketsRadley Balko writing about the activities of the United States Government in Reason Magazine: Many commenters have blamed all of this on capitalism. This isn’t capitalism. It’s a peculiar kind of corporatist socialism, where good risks and the resulting profits remain private, but bad risks and the resulting losses are passed on to taxpayers. There’s…
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Another Wichita School Bond Cartoon
Read more: Another Wichita School Bond CartoonHelen Cochran of Citizens For Better Education has released another cartoon about the Wichita school bond issue. Click here to view this commentary about Wichita’s taxpayer check list.
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Bailout Raises Libertarians’ Market Value
Read more: Bailout Raises Libertarians’ Market Value“The specter of the most titanic intervention in the markets since Franklin Roosevelt started sewing the safety net has folks at the Cato Institute reaching for something strong.” See Bailout Raises Libertarians’ Market Value in the Washington Post. Also from the Cato Institute: Because of their quasi-governmental status, there is a market perception that Fannie…
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KSN News Reports on Wichita School Bond
Read more: KSN News Reports on Wichita School BondKSN News reports on the Wichita school bond issue. I’m in the story. Click here for the news story. Click here for the Wichita school bond channel on YouTube. I wonder: Do people pass out bottled water with custom printed stickers urging people to register and vote out of a sense of civic duty, or…
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Rotten Paper, Toxic Paper
Read more: Rotten Paper, Toxic PaperPat Buchanan’s take on the current financial crisis. See Day of Reckoning.