Commentary / Op-Eds

Corporate Welfare

Lee’s Summit Is Generous to a Fault

A bad idea doesn’t get better with age. Bad ideas aren’t wine, jeans, or your high school memories. The tax subsidies for the Paragon Star development in Lee’s Summit were […]

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Corporate Welfare

Kansas City Needs a Patron Saint of Tax Subsidy Reform

Telling powerful people and groups they can’t have what they want is hard. St. Thomas More learned this by telling England’s King Henry VIII that he couldn’t take a new […]

State and Local Government

Webster Groves Addresses Hard Issues in Zoning

A version of this commentary appeared in the Webster-Kirkwood Times. Zoning can be a complicated issue for people who believe in limited government and market-based policies. There is the conflict […]

Corporate Welfare

A Property Tax Tale of Two Cities

A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It costs money to run cities, and that money comes from taxes. While governments at all levels waste that tax […]

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Why Should the Early Bird Get the Worm?

A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Missourian. Although it’s a little trite, “the early bird gets the worm” is harmless enough as far as old sayings go. […]

Here’s A Crazy Idea: Tax Yourself.

Versions of this commentary were published in the Springfield News-Leader and the Columbia Tribune. Longtime United States Senator and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Russell Long of Louisiana used […]

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