Excellent Op-Ed in the Springfield News-Leader

State and Local Government | December 16, 2009

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 min

I definitely recommend this piece about property taxes in today’s Springfield News-Leader that Combest linked to today. My favorite line from it:

When did $98,560 household income qualify for welfare in Missouri?

This is the new America. Everyone’s on welfare. I guess we have to get used to it.

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from...

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