Tag: Free trade
In Kansas, no E-verify, please
The hope that if we can somehow stop illegal immigrants from obtaining jobs, then unemployed Americans can go back to work, is a false hope. For that and other reasons, I can’t join with Kansas conservatives who support E-verify and other harsh anti-immigrant measures.
Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday December 12, 2011
Today: Kansas budget; Trade protectionism makes us poorer; A new day in politics?; Harm of expanding government explained; Youthful senator to speak; Markets: exploitation or empowerment?
Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday April 14, 2011
Today: Kansas State Board of Education vs. Walt Chappell, protest on tax day; tax day tea party events; Steineger, Kansas senator, to address Pachyderms; trade protectionism makes us poorer; city government under control.
Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday October 24, 2010
Today: Free markets, Raj Goyle, Sam Brownback, Mike Pompeo, Kansas fourth district, Music, Free trade, Wichita Eagle opinion watch, Facebook, Computing, and Politics.
Raj Goyle fundraising plea: wrong facts
Recently candidate for U.S. Congress from the fourth district of Kansas Raj Goyle sent out a fundraising email that distorts facts in order to stir up protectionist fears about the world economy.
Importance of economic freedom explained in Wichita
Yesterday Robert Lawson appeared in Wichita to deliver a lecture titled “Economic Freedom and the Wealth and Health of Nations.” The lecture explained how Lawson and his colleagues calculate the annual “Economic Freedom of the World” index, which ranks most of the countries of the world in how the “policies and institutions of countries are…