Tag: Regulation
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday December 16, 2011
Today: Kansas school finance; No school choice for Kansas; Federal budget transparency; Open records in Wichita; Cell phone ban while driving; Myths of the Great Depression.
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Sustainable planning: The agenda and details
A paper written by Sedgwick County Commissioner Richard Ranzau explains the dangers behind the sustainable planning movement.
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CSAPR not friendly, not a ghost
Every citizen on the planet bears a responsibility toward stewardship of the environment. In the United States we have been blessed by much improved air and water quality over many decades of dedicated effort. There are, however, practical limits as to how far to push the envelope of “clean.”
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Regulatory Accountability Act of 2011
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3010: Regulatory Accountability Act of 2011. This law would, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, would require regulatory agencies to “base all preliminary and final determinations on evidence,” among other reforms.
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Kansas gas storage regulation might not improve safety
Should Kansans be relieved that government regulation and inspection of underground natural gas storage may be resumed soon?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday November 3, 2011
Today: Energy bill to be introduced today; Crony capitalism disputed; Kansans For No Income Tax; Misguided efforts to improve capitalism; Markets: exploitation or empowerment?
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The use of regulation by business, contrary to markets
Business often uses government regulation as way to harm its competitors or gain advantage for itself, which is contrary to the principles of free markets and capitalism.
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Huelskamp on spending, health information database, and Buffett
Addressing members and guests of the Wichita Pachyderm Club last Friday, U.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp of the Kansas first district updated the audience on national spending and debt, a health information database that poses privacy risks, and Warren Buffett’s taxes.
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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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Kerpen on Obama’s regulatory extremism
A new book details the ways that President Obama is bypassing Congress and the will of the people in order to implement his extreme radical agenda.