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Joe Scarborough: Please Stop Saying Laissez-faire
Read more: Joe Scarborough: Please Stop Saying Laissez-faireI’m listening to Joe Scarborough on MSNBC, and he says: “Laissez-faire capitalism is a wonderful thing except in this case …” I’ve heard stuff like this over and over the past few months: A politician says “I’m a big free-market guy, but …” What’s sad to realize is that these people think that what we…
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The Fallacy of “Green Jobs”
Read more: The Fallacy of “Green Jobs”Does climate change offer an opportunity to spend ourselves out of a possible recession? John Stossel doesn’t think so, and in his piece The Fallacy of “Green Jobs” he lays out the case. Key points: “The fallacy is the same in every case: Even if the program creates jobs building bridges or windmills, it necessarily…
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Kansas Lags in Initiative and Referendum
Read more: Kansas Lags in Initiative and ReferendumOn Saturday I traveled to Oklahoma City to attend “Reforming the Reform Process: How to Restore Oklahoma’s Initiative.” What I learned is that Oklahomans are concerned with reforming a valuable citizen right that doesn’t exist at all in Kansas. The initiative process allows citizens to place a question on a ballot to be voted on…
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Public Charter Schools Help Students and Save Tax Dollars
Read more: Public Charter Schools Help Students and Save Tax DollarsThis press release spotlights the fact that charter schools operate much more efficiently than to public schools. Kansas could save money and increase parent satisfaction if our state had more charter schools. The education establishment in Kansas — the teachers unions, administrators, and school boards — are happy with as few charter schools as possible,…
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What Part of Involuntary Servitude Don’t You Understand?
Read more: What Part of Involuntary Servitude Don’t You Understand?Community service: involuntary servitude dressed in polite language. Change … Obama Announces Creation Of His Marxist Youth Corps. See also Emanuel Discusses Compulsory Civilian Youth Force.
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Kansas School Spending May Be Cut
Read more: Kansas School Spending May Be CutAs reported the Kansas Liberty story Governor’s budget office recommends cuts in K-12 spending, K-12 spending in Kansas may be cut. As the Kansas budget is under extreme pressure, if the governor suggests cutting spending, the legislature is probably very happy to go along. The irony is that since several school districts in Kansas, including…
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United States Government Spending (dot com)
Read more: United States Government Spending (dot com)I recently discovered usgovernmentspending.com. It seems like a great place to get data not only for the federal government, but for the states, too.
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Bailouts National and Local
Read more: Bailouts National and LocalA post at the Wichita Eagle Editorial blog titled Either way, taxpayers will pay for failing GM illustrates how when government and business become highly intertwined, a self-sustaining behemoth is created that can’t be slain. We say an example of this locally this year in Wichita, when a taxpayer subsidy to a development turned out…
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In Kansas, Tax Increases Loom
Read more: In Kansas, Tax Increases LoomAs Kansas confronts a disastrous budget, the danger of tax increases is large. As reported by David Klepper in Shortfall means painful budget cuts for Kansas, “Because of declining tax revenue, Kansas faces a $1 billion deficit in next year’s budget, on top of a more than $140 million shortfall in the current budget year.”…