Tag: Regulation
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday August 5, 2011
Today: Jobs report; Sedgwick County budget; There are emergencies, and then there aren’t; Debt ceiling bill seen as feckless; Higher fuel standards mean higher death toll; Myths about markets; What are rights?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday July 20, 2011
Today: Kansas budget director to be in Wichita; All Kansans voted for Cut, Cap, and Balance; Foreclosed homes: the maps; Kansas certificates of indebtedness; Why more regulation is not the answer; Myths of the Great Depression.
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KDHE, Sunflower Electric, Earthjustice, Center for Climate Strategies: different peas in the same pod
Evidence that a business seeking regulatory approval of its project enjoyed an apparently close relationship with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment should not be surprising: regulatory capture is a non-partisan sport.
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Regulation supports business, not capitalism and free 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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Speculators, by profiting, provide a service
When speculators earn profits, they are at the same time providing a valuable public service.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday June 29, 2011
Today: We have tried that before; How can the Fed be so clueless?; Deficit is probably worse than thought; Blue pill or red pill?
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Stossel: The state against blacks
John Stossel’s most recent television program was titled “The State Against Blacks,” and it dealt with the topics of affirmative action, welfare, and the minimum wage.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday May 9, 2011
Today: Airfares down in Wichita; Wichita City Council this week; Joyland topic of British tabloid; educational freedom to be discussed in Wichita; do you want to live in the world of Atlas Shrugged?; who are the real robber barons?
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Stossel: Follow-up to ‘Freeloaders’
John Stossel has a follow-up show to “Freeloaders.”
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The promises politicians make
Government programs often don’t work as promised and cause unintended and harmful consequences.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday May 4, 2011
Today: Stripper bill III; Arts Commission funding in; sunshine needed on public pensions and benefits; beyond the debt ceiling headlines.
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Kansas Office of the Repealer now open
The Kansas Office of the Repealer is now taking suggestions through its website for laws and regulations that are out of date, unreasonable, and burdensome.