Tag: Tax increment financing
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Job creation at young firms declines
A new report by the Kauffman Foundation holds unsettling information for the future of job growth in the United States.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday June 6, 2011
Today: Wichita school superintendent to speak; TIF in California and Kansas; More “Economics in One Lesson”; “Running on Empty” tour in Kansas; MRCTV announced; Kansas census data added; Markets: exploitation or empowerment?
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For Wichita, Save-A-Lot teaches a lesson
The announcement that a Save-A-Lot grocery store will proceed — contrary to the claims of developers and city staff who rely on their information — should provide a lesson that economic development in Wichita can and will happen without public assistance.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday June 5, 2011
Today: Wichita City Council this week; Resources on Austrian economics; Wichita Save-A-Lot owner commended; Pompeo forum.
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In Wichita, corporate welfare not needed, after all
Announcement of a new developer proceeding with a Save-A-Lot grocery store project — without any of the subsidies Wichita approved — raises questions as to whether the city’s original offer of public assistance was genuine economic development, or just another instance of corporate welfare.
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Kansas needs a dynamic economic growth policy
A dynamic market where many new business startups attempt to succeed and thrive while letting old, unproductive firms die is what contributes to productivity and economic growth. But most economic development policies, including those of Kansas and Wichita, do not encourage this dynamism, and in fact, work against it.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday May 11, 2011
Today: Kansas Arts Commission layoffs; sculpture spending in Wichita; how much more can we soak the rich; school reform in Kansas, this year’s edition; Wichita teacher cuts; real estate to be topic at Pachyderm, followed by tours; immigration.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday May 3, 2011
Today: Why not school choice in Kansas?; Economics in one lesson this Monday; Sowell on government intervention; Salina’s first TIF district; Charles on energy and stuff; government and entrepreneurship.
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TIF, a Wichita ‘tool,’ might be on the way out in California
Tax increment financing (TIF), a key component for the financing of the revitalization of downtown Wichita, might be on the way out in California.
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Tax increment financing: TIF has a cost
Supporters of tax increment financing, or TIF, claim that it has no costs. This is true only if one ignores their secondary effects and economic reality.