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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.
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Are you a second class Kansan?
Read more: Are you a second class Kansan?The Kansas legislature is in the process of deciding how wide the separation will be between various classes of Kansans. State Senator Peggy Palmer, R-Augusta, and State Representative Judy Morrison, R-Shawnee, introduced bills in their separate legislative houses that would have exempted social security payments from the Kansas personal income tax this year.
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Public-sector lobbyists are exempt
Read more: Public-sector lobbyists are exemptBut local governments, public universities and Indian tribes are exempt from the limit, so they are able to shower members and their staffs with such goodies as luxury skybox tickets to basketball games and front-row concert tickets.
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Bill Davitt on blight
Read more: Bill Davitt on blightBill Davitt makes some excellent points about the dangers of giving politicians power to control blight through eminent domain. He also explains why it is best to vote for Carlos Mayans for mayor of Wichita.
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The Williams rules
Read more: The Williams rulesThe kind of rules we should have are the kind that we’d make if our worst enemy were in charge. My mother created a mini-version of such a rule. Sometimes she would ask either me or my sister to evenly divide the last piece of cake or pie to share between us. More times than…