Posts for Legislative Impacts

Misdirection

E15 Misdirection (WSJ letter from farm-state US senators) By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 22, 2026  “Is” certainly does not equal “ought.” The market has not spoken. The senators do not have an intellectual case for agricultural rent-seeking and crony capitalism. The way forward, as Travis Fisher of the Cato Institute explains, is to abolish the mandate and let a free market determine the right (lower) amount of ethanol needed as an oxygenate...

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Panasonic

Download the PDF to read the full articlePanasonic’s EV Gamble Isn’t Capitalism—It’s Corporate Welfare.Panasonic’s $4 billion EV battery plant in De Soto—touted as the state’s biggest economic development deal ever—is…

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APEX

Download the PDF to read the full article"Kansas APEX megadeal"The "Kansas APEX megadeal" refers to the state's program, the Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion (APEX) Act, designed to attract large-scale investments, particularly…

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