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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…
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Williams’ law: the vital role of profits
Read more: Williams’ law: the vital role of profitsHere’s Williams’ law: Whenever the profit incentive is missing, the probability that people’s wants can be safely ignored is the greatest. If a poll were taken asking people which services they are most satisfied with and which they are most dissatisfied with, for-profit organizations (supermarkets, computer companies and video stores) would dominate the first list…
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Regents spending plan and Wichita State University’s spending criticized
Read more: Regents spending plan and Wichita State University’s spending criticized“Wichita State University’s part and the rest of the “crumbling classrooms” Regents Institution’s spending plan raises troubling fiscal problems now,” warned Kansas Taxpayers Network’s Executive Director Karl Peterjohn. “The initial list of proposed expenditures from the Board of Regents included substantial amounts of dubious spending proposals. Statewide over $1.4 million in spending on six presidential…
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United Van Lines Shows Kansas Decline
Read more: United Van Lines Shows Kansas DeclineKansans are voting with their feet and the result is that population growth is much faster in more competitive and taxpayer freindly parts of the country. According to the annual migration study conducted by United Van Lines, one of the nation’s largest moving companies, the Midwest and Kansas especially, are losing people at a greater…
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The stink in the Kansas Legislature and statehouse
Read more: The stink in the Kansas Legislature and statehouseA friend sent this short commentary along with analysis by former Kansas Senator Kay O’Connor of Olathe. As I have written, in a free society people should be able to gamble. Relying on gambling for economic development of our state, however, is a losing proposition. With the problems gambling brings — and even casino supporters…