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Policy Papers
a. Immigration
i. “Immigration: Many Questions, A Few Answers” – Congressman Lamar Smith, Heritage Foundation.
ii. “Illegal Immigration Alternatives: How States Should Respond” -- James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation.
iii. “Rewarding Illegal Aliens: Senate Bill Undermines The Rule of Law” -- by Kris W. Kobach, D.Phil., J.D. and Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation.
iv. “The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer” -- by Robert E. Rector and Christine Kim, Heritage Foundation.
v. “The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to State and Local Taxpayers” -- by Robert E. Rector, Heritage Foundation.
b. Taxes and the Economy
i. “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2006” -- by Stephen Slivinski, Cato Institute.
ii. “Proposition 13 and State Budget Limitations: Past Successes and Future Options” -- by Michael J. New, Cato Institute.
iii. “Kansas Legislature to Taxpayers: $22,000 a Minute Please” -- By Trent Sebits, AFP.
iv. “Taxes in Kansas at an All-Time High” -- By Dr. Barry Poulson, AFP.
v. “Kansas Board of Regents' Broken Window” -- Trent Sebits, AFP.
vi. “Rising State and Local Tax Burden Crowds Federal Tax Policy” -- by J.D. Foster, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation.
vii. “Why tax cuts matter” -- by Steve Forbes, Heritage Foundation.
viii. “Upwards Leisure Mobility: Americans Work Less and Have More Leisure Time than Ever Before” -- by James Sherk, Heritage Foundation.
ix. “Limiting Government through Direct Democracy: The Case of State Tax and Expenditure Limitations” -- by Michael J. New, Cato Institute.
x. “Corrupting Charity: Why Government Should Not Fund Faith-Based Charities” -- by Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
xi. "NOW MORE THAN EVER: THE NEED FOR A SELF-IMPOSED SPENDING CAP FOR THE LEGISLATURE” -- BY JONATHAN WILLIAMS, Flint Hills Center for Public Policy.
xii. “THE VIRTUE OF A SELF-IMPOSED SPENDING CAP FOR THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE” – by Jonathan Williams, Flint Hills Center for Public Policy.
xiii. “Paying at the Pump” -- Jonathan Williams, Flint Hills Center for Public Policy.
c. Health care
i. “Killing Ourselves with Food” -- David Frum, American Enterprise Institute.
ii. “Beyond Those Health Care Numbers” –Greg Mankiw, American Enterprise Institute.
iii. “The Freedom to Spend Your Own Money on Medical Care: A Common Casualty of Universal Coverage” -- by Kent Masterson Brown, Cato Institute.
iv. “Medicaid’s Unseen Costs” -- by Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute.
v. “Individual Mandates for Health Insurance: Slippery Slope to National Health Care” -- by Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
vi. “Health Insurance Reform: What Families Should Know” -- by Connie Marshner, Heritage Foundation.
vii. “The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care” -- by David Gratzer, M.D., Heritage Foundation.
viii. “The Health Insurance Exchange: Enabling Freedom of Conscience in Health Care” -- by Connie Marshner, Heritage Foundation.
ix. “More Medicaid Means Less Quality Health Care” -- by John S. O'Shea, M.D., Heritage Foundation.
x. “Competition: A Prescription for Health Care Transformation” -- by The Honorable Tom Coburn, M.D., Joseph Antos and Grace-Marie Turner, Heritage Foundation.
xi. “Where Would You Rather Be Sick?” -- By DAVID GRATZER, Wall Street Journal.
xii. “DEALING WITH KANSAS’ UNINSURED” -- BY MICHAEL BOND , PH.D, Flint Hills Center for Public Policy.
xiii. “REFORMING MEDICAID IN KANSAS: A MARKET-BASED APPROACH” – Flint Hills Center.
xiv. “WHAT’S WRONG WITH MEDICAID IN KANSAS?” – Flint Hills Center.
xv. “THE UNINSURED IN KANSAS – A CLOSER LOOK” – Flint Hills Center.
xvi. “HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE FOR KANSANS” -- BY DEVON HERRICK, Flint Hills Center.
xvii. “GREATEST INCREASE IN UNINSURED FOUND AMONG WEALTHY” -- BY MATTHEW HISRICH, Flint Hills Center.
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d. Education
i. “Kansas Board of Regents' Broken Window” -- Trent Sebits, AFP.
ii. “It’s Time to Start Asking Hard Questions” -- By John R. LaPlante, Flint Hills Center.
iii. “The Power of Choice - Good News About Higher Education” – Flint Hills Center.
iv. “Grading on the Curve?” – Flint Hills Center.
v. “Business Goes to School: How the Private Sector Can Improve K–12 Education” -- By Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute.
vi. “Losing the Race” -- By Newt Gingrich, Roy Romer, American Enterprise Institute.
vii. “By the Numbers: The Ideological Profile of Professors” --By Daniel B. Klein, Charlotta Stern, American Enterprise Institute.
viii. “Suing to Shut Down ‘Teach For America’” -- By Frederick M. Hess.
ix. End It, Don't Mend It -- What to Do with No Child Left Behind -- by Neal McCluskey and Andrew Coulson, CATO Institute.
x. “No Child Left Behind: The Dangers of Centralized Education Policy” -- by Lawrence A. Uzzell, Cato Institute.
xi. “Saving Money and Improving Education: How School Choice Can Help States Reduce Education Costs” -- by David Salisbury, Cato Institute.
xii. “Crimson in Clover: Why Harvard costs so much.” –Wall Street Journal.
xiii. “How Members of Congress Practice Private School Choice” -- by Evan Feinberg, Heritage Foundation.
xiv. “Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Federal Management or Citizen Ownership of K–12 Education?” -- by Eugene Hickok and Matthew Ladner, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation.
xv. “The Administrative Burden of No Child Left Behind” -- by Dan Lips and Evan Feinberg, Heritage Foundation.
xvi. “A Better Answer for Education: Reviving State and Local Policymaking Authority” -- by the Honorable John Cornyn and the Honorable Jim DeMint, Heritage Foundation.
xvii. “Ward Churchill and Multiculturalism: Why American Schools are becoming Anti-American” – The Claremont Institute.
xviii. “How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?” -- by Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
xix. “Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates” – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
xx. “An Evaluation of the Effect of D.C.'s Voucher Program on Public School Achievement and Racial Integration After One Year” – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
xxi. “SPENDING AND ACHIEVEMENT IN KANSAS: A DISTRICT-BY-DISTRICT REVIEW” – Flint Hills Center.
xxii. “K-12 SPENDING AND PERFORMANCE IN KANSAS: 2006 EDITION” – Flint Hills Center.
xxiii. “COMPETITION DELIVERS IMPROVED STUDENT PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM VOUCHER EXPERIMENTS” – Flint Hills Center.
xxiv. “WHY KANSAS MUST IMPROVE ITS ABOVE -AVERAGE TEST SCORE S: KANSANS MUST NOT BE COMPLACENT ABOUT QUALITY OF EDUCATION” – Flint Hills Center.
xxv. “FACTS ABOUT EDUCATION SPENDING IN KANSAS : SHAWNEE MISSION” – Flint Hills Center.
xxvi. “HOW GOOD ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN KANSAS?” -- BY JOHN R. LA PLANTE, Flint Hills Center.
e. Private property
i. “The Birth of the Property Rights Movement” -- by Steven J. Eagle, Cato Institute.
ii. “Property Rights: The Key to Economic Development” -- by Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. and Lee Hoskins, Cato Institute.
iii. “Supreme Court Rules that Homes and Small Business are in Jeopardy” -- by Craig Steckley, AFP.
f. Government Accountability
i. “Your Tax Dollars at Work—on K Street: Cities, states and universities spend more than half a billion dollars lobbying” – The Center for Public Integrity.
ii. Closing a Loopy Loophole: Getting the congressional- reform ball rolling.” -- By Ed Frank, National Review
iii. “How to Cure Pork: And how big government produced the Abramoff scandal.” – Wall Street Journal.
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