Tag: Corporate welfare
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Cabela’s CID should not be approved in Wichita
Outdoor retailer Cabela’s will ask the Wichita City Council to create a Community Improvement District (CID) for its benefit. The city should not approve this transfer of taxation — recognized as a public function — to a private entity for its exclusive benefit.
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Eastgate CID should not be approved in Wichita
Community Improvement Districts represent using the power of government for private benefit, and the Wichita City Council should not approve them.
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Wichita again to bet on corporate welfare as economic development
The Wichita City Council may take action that promotes corporate welfare and the city’s economic development policy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday January 31, 2011
Today: Some downtown Wichita properties plummet in value; Kansas Days; Mises University; “Rosa Parks moment” for education; the state against blacks; politics and city managers; Wednesdays in Wiedemann; Professor Cornpone; Government bird chirping.
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Wichita city manager Robert Layton on the air
Wichita city manager Robert Layton discusses city issues and takes questions from callers.
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Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer: State of the City 2011
Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer delivers his 2001 State of the City address.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday December 28, 2010
Today: Hawker Beechcraft deal breaks new ground, TSA as fine literature; Love, not yet seated in House, moves to Senate; Wichita historic preservation board; Bureaucrats will do what Congress doesn’t; Brownback to focus on core; Schools sue again, and again.
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Hawker Beechcraft deal not proud moment for Kansas
The deal to retain Hawker Beechcraft in Kansas means that reform in that state’s economic development policies is not likely.
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Wichita Old Town TIF district illustrates cost and harm of subsidy
The closing of the Old Town tax increment financing, or TIF, district in Wichita is good news. But the expressed attitude of city council members towards TIF districts indicates that citizens must be concerned that the council will attempt to use this harmful form of developer and corporate welfare in the future.
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Wichita Community Improvement District policy to be decided
Wichita will decide whether notifying consumers of special high-tax districts is good public policy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday October 31, 2010
Today: Carl Brewer, Corporate welfare, Economic development, Elections, Free markets, Politics, Tea Party, Wichita city council, Wichita city government, Wichita and Kansas schools.
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Business can oppose incentives and use them
In the campaign for United States Congress from the fourth district of Kansas, Democrat Raj Goyle criticizes leading opponent Republican Mike Pompeo for accepting economic development incentives while opposing their existence.