Tag: Capitalism
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WichitaLiberty.TV January 26, 2014
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: The City of Wichita’s performance report holds a forecast for increasing debt in Wichita. Then, the government sector in Kansas has grown faster than the private sector. What does this mean? Finally: What can the story of “Bootleggers and Baptists” teach us about regulation?
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Wichita’s legislative agenda favors government, not citizens
Wichita’s legislative agenda contains many items contrary to economic freedom, capitalism, limited government, and individual liberty. Yet, Wichitans pay taxes to have this agenda promoted.
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Wichita economic development: Worth higher taxes?
In this excerpt from WichitaLiberty.TV: Wichita city and business leaders are likely to ask Wichitans to support a higher sales tax in order to support additional economic development efforts. Should Wichitans vote in favor of this?
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In Wichita, ‘free markets’ used to justify business welfare
Incredibly, a prominent Wichita business uses the free market to justify its request for economic development incentives. A gullible city council buys the argument.
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Your local chamber of commerce: Working for you?
Is your local chamber of commerce supporting pro-growth policies that allow free enterprise and genuine capitalism to flourish, or is it supporting crony capitalism?
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Charles G. Koch: Corporate cronyism harms America
When businesses feed at the federal trough, they threaten public support for business and free markets, explains Charles G. Koch.
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A learning opportunity for Wichita
Next month the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce brings a speaker to town who might be able to offer Wichita helpful advice.
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Exchange Place still not good for Wichita, others
Despite having shed the problems with the former owners, the Exchange Place project has become an even worse deal for the taxpayers, job seekers, and investors of Wichita, Kansas, and the nation.
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Touring a Wichita-owned downtown retail development
Touring a Wichita city-owned retail strip in a prime downtown location raises a few issues.
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Wichita income is not keeping up
Visioneering Wichita uses per capita income growth as one benchmark of economic progress. What do the numbers say about the city’s progress?
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WichitaLiberty.TV August 11, 2013
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV, host Bob Weeks asks if shoppers have ever paid extra sales tax in Wichita’s Community Improvement Districts, and describes efforts by the city to avoid disclosure of this tax. Then, are there similarities between Wichita and Detroit? Finally, a Sedgwick County Commissioner is worried about agriculture being driven out of…
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The harm of business welfare
What is the effect of the issuance of business welfare in Wichita, of the intervention in the economy by politicians?