Tag: Free markets
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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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WichitaLiberty.TV October 27, 2013
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute, visits the WichitaLiberty.TV studios and explains the ideas behind libertarianism and its approach to government and society. Episode 18, broadcast October 27, 2013.
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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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Coalition to Congress: End the wind production tax credit
The problems with bestowing government favors on wind energy are myriad — it doesn’t produce cheaper energy, it threatens electrical grid reliability, it’s inefficient, it’s unprincipled tax policy, to name a few — and it’s time to end this misguided handout.
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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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The real free lunch: Markets and private property
As we approach another birthday of Milton Friedman, here’s his article where he clears up the authorship of a famous aphorism, and explains how to really get a free lunch
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Laws that do harm
As we approach another birthday of Milton Friedman, here’s his column from Newsweek in 1982 that explains that despite good intentions, the result of government intervention often harms those it is intended to help.
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Wichita airport statistics: the visualization
While the program to reduce airfares in Wichita has probably met that goal, there have been consequences.
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Cronyism is harmful to our standard of living
The growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of our culture, writes Charles G. Koch.