Tag: Interventionism
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday March 25, 2011
Today: Elections coming up; campaign signs; Kansas income is growing; March to Economic Growth stalled; in Kansas, cutting unnecessary spending can avoid service cuts; open records under attack; ignorant or just ill-informed?; government spending overrides privates spending.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 23, 2011
Today: Owens still blocks judicial selection reform; greed is killing Detroit; liberal Bias at NPR?; electric cars questioned; government as business.
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Quantitative easing: another round?
Another round of expansionist monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing 3 could be on the way.
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In Wichita and Kansas, economic development is not working
The effort of Wichita and Kansas to retain Hawker Beechcraft, one of our leading employers and a Wichita institution, provides a lesson in the futility of corporate welfare as an economic development policy: Someone is usually willing to pay more. We would be much better off if we start transforming Kansas to a state where…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday October 18, 2010
Today: Mike Pompeo, Politics, Raj Goyle, Wichita Pachyderm Club, TIF districts, Kansas fourth district, Elections, Politics, Education, School choice, Kansas state government, Community Improvement Districts
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Hawker Beechcraft might not be viable, in Wichita or Louisiana
News reports that the state of Louisiana has lured Wichita-based Hawker Beechcraft to relocate there is being greeted — understandably — with grave concern by Wichitans and Kansans. But Louisiana may be buying — and Wichita possibly losing — a company that isn’t viable, at least in its present form.
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Drury request for more Broadview Hotel subsidy should be rejected
Tomorrow’s meeting of the Wichita City Council features a public hearing on the creation of a Community Improvement District to benefit Drury Southwest, developer of the Broadview Hotel in downtown Wichita.
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Subsidy for Planeview Save-A-Lot grocery store bad for Wichita
I am troubled by what I see the Wichita city government doing to the owners of the Checkers Grocery store located near the Wichita Planeview neighborhood. At the public hearing before the Wichita City Council on September 14th, one of the Checkers owners testified that their grocery business has been serving the people of Planeview…
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Photos of Wichita Planeview grocery stores
Supporters of a proposed Save-A-Lot grocery store in Wichita’s Planeview neighborhood claim that there are no grocery stores nearby. Therefore, the city is willing to grant over $800,000 in special tax treatment to this store. This special tax treatment — let’s call it what it is: corporate welfare is not available to the store’s competitors…
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Wichita City Council subsidizes pizza and doughnuts for Planeview
At the September 14th Wichita City Council meeting the public was treated to tales of the helpless nature of Wichita’s Planeview residents. It sounded as if residents are being held in an open-air prison, victims of society, greedy QuikTrip stores, and price-gouging cab companies, unable to obtain the necessities of life without trekking an entire…
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Wichita economic development incentives to be topic of meeting
This Thursday (September 9) Americans for Prosperity is holding a meeting to discuss a series of economic development incentives that will be considered in an upcoming meeting of the Wichita city council.