Tag: Economics
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Tax increment financing: The right tool for Wichita jobs?
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is an economic development tool that uses the expected growth (or increment) in property tax revenues from a designated geographic area of a municipality to finance bonds used to pay for goods and services calculated to spur growth in the TIF district. The analysis performed for this study found TIF does…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday November 10, 2011
Today: Occupy Wall Street; Johnson Controls; Save-A-Lot store opens; Teacher pay; Ranzau, Skelton to speak; Making economics come alive; Economics in two minutes.
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‘Sustainable planning’ not so sustainable
The vast majority of Americans, surveys say, aspire to live in a single-family home with a yard. The vast majority of American trave — around 85 percent — is by automobile. Yet the Obama administration thinks more Americans should live in apartments and travel on foot, bicycle, or mass transit.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday October 31, 2011
Today: Wichita City Council; Crony capitalism; Kansas pensions; Global economics to be discussed in Wichita; Progress, or not; Business and politics.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday October 26, 2011
Today: Tax increment financing; Tax incentives questioned; The Moral Case Against Spreading the Wealth; Political pretense vs. market performance; Increasing taxes not seen as solution.
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The government-as-business myth
Government officials, including those in Wichita, may believe they are operating government like a business. But that can’t happen.
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Wichita economic development: And then what will happen?
Critics of the economic development policies in use by the City of Wichita are often portrayed as not being able to see and appreciate the good things these policies are producing, even though they are unfolding right before our very eyes. The difference is that some look beyond the immediate — what is seen –…
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Economic freedom in America: The decline, and what it means
The decline in economic freedom in the U.S. leads to slow growth in the private sector economy and persistently high unemployment.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday October 10, 2011
Today: AFP meeting features former Congressman Tiahrt; Government planning; Longwell joins Democrats to defeat Republicans; Optimal size of government; Steve Jobs; Lieutenant Governor in Wichita; When governments cut spending.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday October 5, 2011
Today: Green energy in Kansas; Economic development in Wichita; The first rough draft of the Solyndra story; Democrats Anonymous.