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Friedman: The fallacy of the welfare state

A simple classification of government spending shows why the process leads to undesirable results, explain Milton and Rose Friedman.

July 22, 2015

WichitaLiberty.TV: Arts funding, property taxes, uninformed officials, tax increment financing, and social security

Is Wichita risking a Soviet-style future? A look at Wichita property taxes, uninformed and misinformed elected officials, tax increment financing, and social security.

June 4, 2015

The Reagan legacy on spending

As time passes, it may be possible for widespread critical evaluation of Ronald Reagan, both the good things he did, and the bad.

April 27, 2014

Medicaid expansion: The impact on the federal budget and deficit

The problem with the uninsured is not going to be solved by expanding Medicaid, writes Steve Anderson for Kansas Policy institute.

February 4, 2014

Friedman: The fallacy of the welfare state

A simple classification of government spending shows why the process leads to undesirable results, explain Milton and Rose Friedman.

July 27, 2013

Things have changed at Social Security Administration

Remember when your Social Security card stated that it was not to be used for identification purposes?

October 1, 2012

Government interventionism ensnares us all

Are those who call for an end to government subsidy programs hypocrites for accepting those same subsidies?

September 25, 2012

Pompeo: No debt ceiling hike without structural changes

U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo, a Wichita Republican, said the country can’t risk continuing to spend at the present rate. There should be no agreement to raise the debt ceiling absent structural changes, he added.

July 15, 2011

President Obama: Just cash in the Social Security Trust Fund

Could President Obama simply cash in a few of the bonds held by the Social Security Trust fund in August, if needed to pay benefits?

July 12, 2011

Social Security Trust Fund: Why no truth?

Regardless of one’s attitude towards the Social Security system, the refusal by liberals to admit the fraud of the system’s trust fund remains an obstacle to honest discussion of the system’s future.

July 4, 2011

Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday June 27, 2011

Today: Huelskamp on spending as driving economic growth; No Wichita Pachyderm this week; Government spending secrets; Wichita city council; Wichita city budget input; Fracking facts.

June 27, 2011

Greenwald and Sanders try to defend Social Security, slam Charles and David Koch

Are the free market critics of Social Security a shadowy “echo chamber” seeking to end the system for the benefit of the rich, or sounding a fact-based alarm that government and its supporters dispute and don’t want you to hear?

June 23, 2011

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