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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…
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Pay As You Go?
Read more: Pay As You Go?On the rare occasions the mainstream national news media bothers to cover federal spending and taxes you are sure to hear the phrase, “pay as you go,” as the primary talking point of the new congressional Democratic majority. This phrase is supposed to reassure us now that the profligate “Bridge to Nowhere,” free spending Republicans…
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President Bush’s tax hike
Read more: President Bush’s tax hikeAt the end of March 2007, President Bush raised taxes on Americans. How so? He did it by applying tariffs to imports of paper from China.
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Painlessly paying our taxes, almost
Read more: Painlessly paying our taxes, almostSince tax withholding from paychecks and mortgage payments reduces our awareness of just how much tax we pay, it’s unlikely that governments will stop the withholding of taxes and submit a bill to taxpayers. Instead, it’s left to ourselves to remain aware of how much we are paying.
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Wichita school board endorsements
Read more: Wichita school board endorsementsAn incumbent, a candidate endorsed by another incumbent, and a past president of the teachers union: these are three of the four endorsements by The Wichita Eagle for the Wichita Board of Education. These endorsements represent satisfaction with our schools’ current condition. But what do we find when we look at our schools?
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Gambling study flawed. Ask casino workers.
Read more: Gambling study flawed. Ask casino workers.Did you know that a study used to promote the economic development benefits of gambling in Wichita has casino workers paying for a large part of the social costs of gambling?
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Government funds promoting downtown Wichita arena
Read more: Government funds promoting downtown Wichita arena… it is our opinion that public funds may not be used to promote or advocate the position of a governing body on a matter which is before the electorate. However, this does not mean that public funds may not be expended to educate and inform the electorate. That’s the opinion of the Kansas Attorney…
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Economic fallacy alive in Kansas at Docking Institute
Read more: Economic fallacy alive in Kansas at Docking InstituteThere really is no free lunch. What Kansans spend on university repairs can’t be spent on something else. Should Kansas spend the money that the Regents are asking for to repair the universities? Because it fails to recognize the secondary effects of the proposed spending, the analysis put forth by the Docking Institute doesn’t answer…
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Curious Logic
Read more: Curious LogicThere’s something about our nation’s capital that converts many leading Democrats to school choice. But in most cases this extends only to their own children — not to the millions of children in failing public schools.