Wichita is a great place to do business. In fact, it’s the seventh-least-taxing large city in the nation, according to the new 2006 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey. Can it do even better? No doubt. So can the state, which had the fourth-worst job growth in the nation during the first quarter. But the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce and other economic development groups need to brag about Wichita’s business climate to anyone who will listen.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Key point: “to anyone who will listen”
uh, phillip, that’s the problem. It is hard to get business people to listen when they are laughing so hard they cant breathe.
Why would they bring their kids to live here in the sunflower state, even if it is the oh so sophisticated largest city in the state?
Because it is KANSAS! You know, where their kids will get a 1920’s style education (scopes monkey trial) and phill klein will PERSONALLY monitor their teen’s sex lives.
Connie Morris will tell their kid’s science teachers EXACTLY what to post on their doors, Kay O’Connor, a republican running for chief election officer will tell their kids that women should have never gotten the vote, bonbon huy will give them the message that marriage at 14 is a GOOD thing for them like it was for her sister.
Susan “I make my living from bingo but you cant vote on gambling” Wagle will be monitoring KU professors to make sure no SEX education occurs at the college level. She will also show them that hypocrisy WINS at the ballot box in kansas.
And Jim Barnett and Mike O’Neal will make sure the public schools will NOT have sufficient funding, even by the standards set in their own study.
Oh, and I forgot, Terry, Joe and FRED will look after all their souls, whether they want the holy joes to do so or not. They are in charge of the kansas constitution.
heheheheheh.
Hard to get people to listen about common business sense when they are ROLLING on the floor laughing at the very idea they and their kids might ever live in the wheat state.
I dont care how good your local economy is, they laugh and then they shudder when they listen to the truth about kansas on any national news feed or political comedy show, or read any CREDIBLE newspaper.
Credible, you know, the kind that would put values boy either on the church page or the comics page.
Wichita would have to spend billions with a “b” to overcome the damage the kansas legislature does to the state’s reputation every time it is in session.
And how do you think they regard us knowing our devotion statewide to the “holy” trinity of Terry, Joe and FRED?
hee hee hee.
And you think they will invest jobs and money HERE? heheh. Not unless they are making money by pillaging the aircraft industry.
Otherwise? heheheheheheh
Wichita rocks!
:)
Hey guys, dont forget that if you scrach the City Councils back enough, they will give you millions in tax breaks to locate your business here…
Tony! You think that is a uniquely Wichita practice? Think again!
Not only will you get a tax break but the city will bail you out when you fail.
I can understand why a busines wouldn’t want to relocate to “Kansas, The Punch Line State”
But the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce and other economic development groups need to brag about Wichita’s business climate to anyone who will listen.Posted by Phillip Brownlee
Sorry, since the Wichita Eagle has identified Kansas as the laughing stock of America, it would do no good.
Kansas isn’t all that bad.
Kansas isn’t all that bad.
Posted by: Joe Williams | July 09, 2006 at 10:37 PM
Damn it Joe, The Wichita Eagle is doing everyone here a favor by having everyone believe that Kansas is a terrible place. They help in keeping our real estate prices low and thus the real estate taxes low.DON’T SPOIL IT!!
Just don’t have to go to the hospital!!
Seventh LEAST taxing large city in the nation. Wait till Karl Peterjohn, the Kansas Taxpayers Network, KCL, the anti-arena cavers and every other anti-tax and anti-government yahoo sees this. The shit’s gonna hit the fan!!! They’ve been trying to brainwash us all into believing we pay SO MUCH taxes, more than anyone else. Nice to know these morons can not back up their claims with facts. The Kosmont-Rose study needs to be shoved in the face of these people. Yet even then I’m sure we’d hear these rednecks mumble about how we still pay too many taxes. It would sure make me feel better anyway, anyway…