Tag: Taxation
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Wichita should reject tax increment financing
Wichita should reject tax increment financing for the good of the entire city.
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Wichita turns taxation over to private interests
In a free society with a limited government, taxation should be restricted to being a way for government to raise funds to pay for services that all people benefit from. But in the city of Wichita, taxation for private gain is overtaking our city.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday December 2, 2011
Today: Wichita trip to Ghana; Register of Deeds returns funds; Transaction fee, or interest?; This is a cut?; Tax incentives questioned; Golden geese on the move; Rep. Hedke, author of new book, to speak; Economic freedom in America: The decline, and what it means.
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Wichita property taxes are high, leading to other problems
High business property taxes in Wichita cause officials to take an “active investor” role in economic development, despite evidence that this approach does not work.
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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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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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Pompeo to introduce ‘Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act’
U. S. Representative Mike Pompeo of Wichita plans to introduce the “Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act,” a bill that would eliminate all tax credits related to energy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday October 26, 2011
Today: Tax increment financing; Tax incentives questioned; The Moral Case Against Spreading the Wealth; Political pretense vs. market performance; Increasing taxes not seen as solution.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday October 24, 2011
Today: Wichita City Council; ‘Federalists’ author to appear in Wichita this week; Rep. Huelskamp to speak in Wichita; Kansas tax reform; The debt of the states; Freedom of the press; Student loans; Obama makes a great appointment; Libertarianism works both ways.
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Warren Buffet’s secretary: marginal vs. average, Hauser’s Law
Some of the confusion surrounding Warren Buffet’s secretary and her taxes comes from the failure to distinguish between average and marginal tax rates. Then, there’s Buffet’s tax-avoiding behavior, which illustrates Hauser’s Law.
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Research on state taxes: Kansas should cut
As Kansans prepare to debate whether to reduce our state’s income taxes, there will be those, such as Rhonda Holman of the Wichita Eagle, who will urge caution before proceeding with reducing taxes. Others will claim that government taxation and spending is what makes the state’s economy grow. Two research papers illustrate the need to…