…lack of substantive empirical support. Allow all new warehouse owners to compete for the tax credits All arbitrary limits on Aerotropolis eligibility should be removed. The Aerotropolis tax credits would…
…highly flawed and its marketing was highly questionable. Case in point: some legislators who supported Aerotropolis were talking up Missouri beef exports to China as an Aerotropolis selling point —…
…Saint Louis County may apply $3 million in casino tax revenues to support the Aerotropolis project. If true, the funding source would certainly be apropos, given that Aerotropolis almost certainly…
…in 2011 and again in 2012. Yet public money has already gone toward Aerotropolis. Last year, Saint Louis County officials diverted $3 million in gambling tax revenues to support Aerotropolis….
Longtime readers of the Show-Me Institute’s research into the Aerotropolis legislation have known for some time that the bill’s tax credits, as written, could be used for trade that was…
…Aerotropolis subsidies and tax revenue as a political tool. There doesn’t seem to be a practical reason to include these mechanisms in the Aerotropolis legislation. They do, however, invite corruption…
…That bundle of subsidies, which was proposed during the past legislative session, was contained within the so-called “Aerotropolis” bill. Christine Harbin, Patrick Ishmael, and I all took issue with the…
…about the $360 million in so-called “Aerotropolis” tax credits that would have subsidized warehouse development and international flights. The Midwest-China Hub Commission (MCHC), the organization that has been pushing for…
…I have concluded that it is very unlikely that Aerotropolis would need public subsidies. Given the absence of well-identified market failures it follows that if Aerotropolis were a project involving…
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