Tag: Property rights
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Schools and the nature of competition and cooperation, Wind power and taxes
A Kansas newspaper editorial is terribly confused about schools and the nature of competition in markets. Then, we already knew that the wind power industry in Kansas enjoys tax credits and mandates. Now we learn that the industry largely escapes paying property taxes.
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Wichita planning documents hold sobering numbers
Planning documents released this week hold information that ought to make Wichitans think, and think hard. The amounts of money involved are large, and portions represent deferred maintenance. That is, the city has not been taking care of the assets that taxpayers have paid for.
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Economic freedom, the key to improving lives
Economic freedom leads to better lives for people as measured in a variety of ways. This is true for everyone, especially for poor people.
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WichitaLiberty.TV December 29, 2013
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Are Kansas school leaders beng honest with schoolchildren and parents regarding Kansas school test scores? Then: Walter Williams on greed. Finally: Do we have too many laws? A look at the problem of overcriminalization.
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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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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…
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Economic freedom improves our lives
Economic freedom, in countries where it is allowed to thrive, leads to better lives for people as measured in a variety of ways. This is true for everyone, especially for poor people.
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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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Kansas House votes for property rights
Today the Kansas House of Representatives passed a bill that will protect property owners from harm simply because their property is near a historic property.
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Refuting the attacks on Koch
What do big government politicians mean when they say, “Koch?”
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A second Bill of Rights, by Franklin Roosevelt
President Franklin Roosevelt proposed an expansive set of rights, many of which have become law and policy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday May 17, 2012
Today: Watchdog reporter at Pachyderm; Kansas senators vote for cronyism; Koch = big oil?; Economic freedom; We aren’t Greece … yet.