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Wichita Eagle Says “AirTran Subsidies Foster Competition”
Read more: Wichita Eagle Says “AirTran Subsidies Foster Competition”In an editorial in The Wichita Eagle published on April 19, 2005, Randy Scholfield writes: “Wichita should stick to its subsidies. They’re fostering competition, not stifling it, and paying off big-time for the community by lowering airfares and boosting economic development.”
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Kansas Faces Challenges for Growth
Read more: Kansas Faces Challenges for GrowthBy Alan Cobb, Americans For Prosperity Kansas State Director Many would describe that much of rural Kansas is in decline. Nearly 60 percent of the counties in Kansas have lost population just since 1990. Over half of Kansas’ counties have fewer residents today than 1900. Just this week the Associated Press reported that stated Kansas…
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Democrats dominate in top Kansas court
Read more: Democrats dominate in top Kansas courtThere are three numbers that everyone at the statehouse knows who follows Kansas government: 63, 21, and one. You must have 63 votes to pass a bill out of the Kansas House of Representatives, 21 votes to pass a bill out of the Kansas Senate, and the governor’s signature to turn a bill into law.
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The Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
Read more: The Rise of Government and the Decline of MoralityAt the time when we have voted on a major issue that was framed in terms of morality, when we have prominent preachers attempting to impose their version of morality on us through the power of government, when we have a mayor who opposes certain businesses for moral reasons, and we have government at all…
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AirTran Subsidy Remarks
Read more: AirTran Subsidy RemarksFollowing are remarks I am delivering to several groups, including the Wichita City Council, in April 2005.
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Poetry: Welcome New Council Members
Read more: Poetry: Welcome New Council MembersWELCOME NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS I AM OLD AND SICK AND GETTING GRAYI DON’T KNOW WHERE I WILL GET THE MONEY THAT THE CITY WANTS ME TO PAY
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Tax funds finance Kansas school finance lawsuit
Read more: Tax funds finance Kansas school finance lawsuitThere might not be funds for public school classrooms but for 15 Kansas school districts there is money for financing lawsuits. Since the 1998-99 school year, $2,095,020 has been spent in public funds to pay for the school finance litigation and lawsuit.
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The downside of Being the Air Cap
Read more: The downside of Being the Air CapMr. Clements’s article makes a striking conclusion as to why airfares in Wichita were so high. I would be curious as to whether any of our government leaders have read the study. We should also ask why our government leaders are not performing research like this when they propose to spend large sums of taxpayer…
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Why government spending is (mostly) bad
Read more: Why government spending is (mostly) badGovernment spending replaces the judgment of the market with the judgment of politicians. The judgment of the market refers to the billions of decisions that we collectively make each day, decisions that we freely make, that we believe will advance our self-interest. That is to say, the market is characterized by mutual agreement and voluntary…
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TABOR Criticism Analysis
Read more: TABOR Criticism AnalysisFrom the introduction to an analysis by the Tax Foundation: The state of Colorado is under assault. Opponents of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) are waging a well coordinated but misleading attack on Colorado’s reputation. This attack takes the form of a number of rankings and statistics that purport to show that the Taxpayer…
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Taxed Out of Business
Read more: Taxed Out of BusinessFrom the Junction City Daily Union, March 24, 2005 By Kay Blanken Special to The Daily Union Friday evening, many of us in Junction City opened our newspaper to the headline, “Local Alco Closing Its Doors.” The Kansas City Star reported that 20 Alco stores across Kansas were closing their doors. This is a Kansas…
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Frisky Flunkies in Atchison County
Read more: Frisky Flunkies in Atchison CountyFrom Karl Peterjohn, Kansas Taxpayers Network The Wall Street Journal’s “Tony & Tacky” section mentioned one Kansas school district on the day the Kansas senate was debating the largest one-year state spending hike for public schools in this century and according to one legislator, in state history. The $127 million increase in state spending would…