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Urban Renewal: A Flawed Idea That Failed 50 Years Ago
Read more: Urban Renewal: A Flawed Idea That Failed 50 Years AgoUrban renewal failed across the United States in the 20th century. The urban renewal efforts from the 20th century that are the foundation for the newly proposed redevelopment agency in Wichita rely upon these old Kansas laws that require an increase in local government’s powers. There are no clearly defined steps that will avoid repeating…
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Bureaucratic Incentives Create Deadly Consequences
Read more: Bureaucratic Incentives Create Deadly ConsequencesWalter Williams summarizes why the Food and Drug Administration is likely to delay the approval of drugs that benefit people. Simply stated, they adopt a risk-averse strategy to avoid being criticized for allowing a dangerous drug on the market, even though almost all drugs can be dangerous.
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Wasteful Kansas statehousesSpending
Read more: Wasteful Kansas statehousesSpendingWasteful spending at the Kansas statehouse is nothing new. What is new is the wasteful spending on the Kansas statehouse. This building still has the ugly look of a construction site with a soaring price tag. In 2007 a bipartisan group of legislative moderates are intent on continuing this unlimited statehouse spending spree.
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Testimony supporting an arena re-vote
Read more: Testimony supporting an arena re-voteWe need to correct the flawed downtown arena proposal’s mistakes. Since the legislature authorized the county sales tax for the downtown arena it has become abundantly clear that the case against proceeding with the flawed arena project has been made. Enclosed with this testimony is a copy of the 2004 flyer used in that election…
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Floods and whirlwind (of spending in Kansas)
Read more: Floods and whirlwind (of spending in Kansas)Kansans are focused upon the floods as well as the results of the tornados that tore up this state in early May. The wrath of Mother Nature is upon us just as the Kansas legislature has left its own flood of spending and whirlwind of legislative changes on this state. The legislature’s fiscal wrath might…
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Recycling in Wichita: Be Careful What You Wish For
Read more: Recycling in Wichita: Be Careful What You Wish ForThe Wichita Eagle editorial board, particularly Randy Scholfield, has been pressing for mandatory recycling. Here’s an example of the type of legislation we might see if reason fails us.
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The miracle and morality of the market
Read more: The miracle and morality of the marketIn this short article we learn the simple mechanism that makes our economy work so well. Interfering with that mechanism is not only harmful, it is immoral.
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Recycle, if you wish
Read more: Recycle, if you wishShould we in Wichita or Sedgwick County be forced to recycle? Prices for commodities and goods represent the best available information about the worth of them — that is, unless the government is manipulating prices. The prices people are willing to pay for recycled goods, therefore, tell us everything we need to know about their…
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A downtown Wichita urban renewal success story … not
Read more: A downtown Wichita urban renewal success story … notThis history lesson from Karl Peterjohn of the Kansas Taxpayers Network tells the story of what might have been for downtown Wichita, and shows how close Wichita came to losing a company very important to our local economy, even if they’re not located downtown.
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It’s not yours to cut
Read more: It’s not yours to cutIt’s the people who “give” tax money to the government, not the government who “gives” it back to the people in the form of tax cuts. If the government cuts taxes, the government gives us nothing. It simply takes less of what is ours in the first place.
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The Real Cost of Higher Taxes
Read more: The Real Cost of Higher TaxesA column in the Wall Street Journal explains how certain tax cuts generate additional growth and thus lead to some degree of revenue feedback to the Treasury. The authors point out that higher taxes, by contrast, would impose harsh costs on the economy for every dollar collected by the IRS.
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Hillary Clinton and Milton Friedman: The Contrast
Read more: Hillary Clinton and Milton Friedman: The Contrast“The unfettered free market has been the most radically destructive force in American life in the last generation.” — First Lady Hillary Clinton on C-Span in 1996 stating her troubles with the free market “What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them…