Voice For Liberty

Tag: Economics

  • Job growth, Kansas and other states

    Critics of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback may not know that Kansas has produced substandard performance in job growth for a long time.

  • Kansas jobs: Who do we believe?

    So let’s be fair. The next time Paul Davis and Democrats praise good job creation figures at the national level as evidence of the goodness of Barack Obama, let’s ask them to give the same credit to Sam Brownback.

  • In Kansas, dueling job claims

    Candidates for Kansas governor last week released statements on recent job figures in Kansas. The releases from Sam Brownback and Paul Davis appear to contain conflicting views of Kansas employment.

  • The war on poverty

    What has been the result of America’s war on poverty?

  • Government spending

    Milton and Rose Friedman explain why government spending is wasteful, how it leads to corruption, how it often does not benefit the people it was intended, and how the pressure for more spending is always present.

  • WichitaLiberty.TV December 8, 2013

    In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Wichita city leaders are preparing to ask Wichita voters to approve a sales tax increase. What would this money be used for? Are there alternatives, such as private sector integration, that the city could consider? Then: What is the role of the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce? Is it promoting…

  • Walter Williams: How to do good

    Economist Walter Williams told a Wichita audience that when government is used in an attempt to do good, it requires either elimination or attenuation of private property and market forces. But it is private property and the desire for more that motivates people to do difficult and laborious things that benefit their fellow man. It…

  • Wichita Airport traffic: The video

    To keep airfares low at the Wichita Airport, the Wichita City Council in partnership with Sedgwick County and the State of Kansas pays a discount air carrier to operate in Wichita. While the program almost certainly has the intended effect on airfares, there is another effect: The trend of flights and seats available in Wichita…

  • Wichita City Council makes an uneconomic decision

    The Wichita City Council was faced with a decision regarding a program designed to stimulate the sales of new homes. Analysis revealed that even though the city had an opportunity to make an investment with a purportedly high return on investment, it would be better off, dollar-wise, if it did not make the investment.

  • Cessna, another Wichita company asking for tax relief

    As Wichita considers granting tax relief to a major employer, it becomes more difficult for entrepreneurs and young companies to survive.

  • WichitaLiberty.TV November 24, 2013

    In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Host Bob Weeks takes a look at proceedings of a Wichita City Council meeting and uses it to illustrate some of the reasons why the Wichita-area economy is not growing very rapidly.

  • Government-funded arts, again

    Is anyone else offended, as I am, that government taxes us to provide for us the art that politicians, bureaucrats, and their sycophants think we should consume? What type of personality feels entitled to forcibly make these personal decisions for others?