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Corporate Welfare

New TIF is a Bad Deal for Boonville

A new tax-increment financing (TIF) package is being proposed to subsidize a new, 400-home development in Boonville. As best we can tell, there has only been one TIF previously in […]

Corporate Welfare

What Would Daniel Boone (or His Sons) Think of TIF?

A new tax-increment financing (TIF) package is being proposed to subsidize a new, 400-home development in Boonville. As best we can tell, there has only been one TIF previously in […]

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A New “License Compact”? Why?

Last year, the Missouri Legislature passed a watershed law that established one of the first true interstate license reciprocity reforms in the country. Missouri’s law recognizes out-of-state licenses for a […]

Corporate Welfare

Tax Incentive Reform Getting a Fresh Look from Legislators, Too

My colleague David Stokes wrote recently in the The Star about Kansas City’s pivot toward local incentive reform, a move that the Institute has called for over a decade. Specifically, […]

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How Transportation Public–Private Partnerships Can Benefit Missourians

Interstate 70 and several important Missouri roads need to be replaced soon but the Missouri Department of Transportation claims it lacks the money to do so. Using public–private partnerships (P3s) […]

State and Local Government

Local Government Transparency Bill Gets Resounding 149-2 Vote in the House

If local governments can take your money, they should tell you how they’re spending it. And if they can’t or won’t? Well, that’s a problem, and it looks like the […]

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