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By Rick Edlund | Episode Length 1 min

Listen to these all new audio clips from the Show-Me Institute about free-market ideas:

  • Medicaid: Medicaid expansion sounds like free money, but after three years, Missouri taxpayers will have to pick up a $3 billion tab. Reform Medicaid, don’t expand it.
  • Common Core: One size for kids doesn’t fit all, whether it’s shoes or schools. Why use centrally imposed standards that don’t meet the individual needs of local schools or students?
  • Minimum Wage: We’d like to see everyone get a raise, but a government mandate is the wrong way to go. Raising the minimum wage will only hurt the very people it’s intended to help.
  • Accounting: Missouri is behind in funding its public pensions because of flawed accounting assumptions.
  • Tax Credits: Elected officials gamble your money on their favored corporations. Let’s end corporate welfare.

 

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Rick Edlund is a communications consultant for Show-Me Opportunity, an organization associated with the Show-Me Institute. He left his hometown of Kansas City to become a sportswriter, attending Northwestern Universitys prestigious Medill School of Journalism. It was there that he found his niche...

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