In Wichita, three Community Improvement Districts to be considered
In Community Improvement Districts (CID), merchants charge additional sales tax for the benefit of the property owners, instead of the general public. Wichita may have an additional three, contributing...
View ArticleKansas minimum wage hike would harm the most vulnerable workers
A bill to raise the minimum wage in Kansas will harm the most vulnerable workers, and make it more difficult for low-skill workers to get started in the labor market. Legislation introduced by...
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Blubaugh, Mayor vote for licenses for undocumented workers to drive to their...
The Wichita city council voted to recommend that the Kansas Legislature create drivers permits for undocumented workers so they could drive to their jobs. In December the Wichita City Council voted to...
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The purpose of high tax rates
From February 2014. “The purpose of high taxes on the rich is not to get the rich to pay money, it’s to get the middle class to feel better about paying high taxes.” This is what Jim Pinkerton, the...
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Tax rates and taxes paid
Those who call for a return to 90 percent tax rates should be aware that few people actually paid tax at those rates. Progressives are calling for higher income tax rates on the rich. The top marginal...
View ArticleWichita Eagle editorial board on county budget
When someone invokes “ideology” in their criticism of you, you know that they’ve either run short of actual arguments based on fact, or they don’t know what ideological means. In its op-ed this Sunday,...
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Intellectuals vs. the rest of us
Why are so many opposed to private property and free exchange — capitalism, in other words — in favor of large-scale government interventionism? Lack of knowledge, or ignorance, is one answer, but...
View ArticleThey really are government schools
What’s wrong with the term “government schools?” A recent op-ed in the Wichita Eagle read: “Some have begun to call public schools ‘government schools,’ a calculated pejorative scorning both education...
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How would higher Kansas taxes help?
Candidates in Kansas who promise more spending ought to explain just how higher taxes will — purportedly — help the Kansas economy. Are low taxes important to an economy, especially a state economy?...
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Decoding Duane Goossen
The writing of Duane Goossen, a former Kansas budget director, requires decoding and explanation. This time, his vehicle is “Rise Up, Kansas.” Duane Goossen was Kansas budget director from 1998 to...
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