Tag: Free markets
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Walter Williams on doing good
Economist Walter Williams told a Wichita audience that when government is used in an attempt to do good, it requires either elimination or attenuation of private property and market forces. But it is private property and the desire for more that motivates people to do difficult and laborious things that benefit their fellow man. It…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday September 9, 2011
Today: A citizen call to action; Troubles with Kansas City tax increment financing; Effects of stimulus on hiring; Kansas education summit; Why should conservatives like libertarian ideas?
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Walter Williams: Government must stick to its limited and legitimate role
Economist Walter E. Williams spoke on the legitimate role of government in a free society, touching on the role of government as defined in the Constitution, the benefits of capitalism and private property, and the recent attacks on individual freedom and limited government.
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Our Downtown Wichita launched
As part of an effort to provide information about the Douglas Place project, a proposed renovation of a downtown Wichita office building into a hotel, Americans for Prosperity, Kansas has created a website. The site’s motto is “Limited government and free markets in Downtown Wichita benefit everyone. Centralized planning and crony capitalism benefit only a…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday August 29, 2011
Today: Wichita City Council; Government and business; Developer welfare shop opened; ‘Kansans United’ formed; Kansas education summit; No Wichita Pachyderm this week; Myths of capitalism.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday August 22, 2011
Today: How not to grow an economy; Son of TARP; Wichita City Council; Critique of Keynesian policies; Junior Kansas legislators to speak.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday August 15, 2011
Today: Kansas economic development welfare promoted; “Birth of Freedom” screening; Kansas Republicans meet; Wichita City Council; Kansas values to be topic of speech; Libertarianism explained.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday August 11, 2011
Today: Kensinger, Brownback chief of staff, profiled; New York charter schools seen as success; Morality of capitalism.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday August 10, 2011
Today: Kansas House Appropriations Chair to speak; Sebelius responds to waivers inquiry; Brownback to Sebelius: No thanks; ‘Nullify Now’ tour in Kansas City; ‘Birth of Freedom’ screening.