Cutting Cigarette Taxes for Budget Health
While lawmakers in the Show-Me State want to hike the cigarette tax rate, lawmakers in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and...
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Let the Free Market Turn Missouri Green!
Gov. Jay Nixon wants to make Missouri a green state. According to an article in the Missouri Watchdog, the governor...
Missouri’s Attorney General Is Still Not Yet On Board Florida Lawsuit
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has not yet signed onto the multistate lawsuit challenging the federal health care law. At least...
Gov. Nixon’s Sky-High Travel Expenditures
While Missouri faces a $500 million budget deficit, Gov. Jay Nixon has increased his frequent flights around the state, hiding...
Attorney General Chris Koster Should Join the Multistate Health Care Lawsuit in Florida
When they passed Proposition C last August, Missourians demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to the federal health care reform law. They...
Massachusetts Repeals Liquor Taxes; Should Missouri, Too?
Residents of Massachusetts have a special reason to celebrate the new year. Beginning Jan. 1, the state repealed its 6.25-percent...
More on the Economics of Gift Giving
For Christmas, my sister bought me a copy of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan...
A Market Failure in Outdoor Advertising?
The Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) Commission held its final meeting of 2010 on Wednesday morning. One of the commissioners sported...
Selective Tax Rates in Advertising
While driving back to Saint Louis from Wisconsin yesterday, I stopped at the Road Ranger gas station in South Beloit,...
With the Right Strategy, STL’s New Developer in Chief Could Move City Forward Quickly
The Post-Dispatch reports that Barbara Geisman is stepping down from her post as Saint Louis’ deputy mayor for development. Geisman...
The Wall Street Journal Weighs In on Unicameral Legislatures
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had an article about something that we here at the Show-Me Institute have discussed previously: the...
Private Investigators Can Go to Jail if They Don’t Get Their Licenses
Missourinet has the scoop on the recently installed requirements for licensure of private investigators in Missouri. I remember when the efforts to...
Government Meetings! Exciting!
The Tax Credit Review Commission is holding its final regional meeting at 815 Olive St. in Saint Louis at 3...
Yikes! Blight!
We already know that city government can take your home through eminent domain, even if your property will ultimately be...
“I Do Not Believe That the Economy of the Future of My State Will Be Built on That Industry”
From an article by the Associated Press (hat tip to Audrey Spalding): Gov. Jay Nixon, who signed the legislation, has...
U.S. PIRG Publication Misrepresents Substance of Show-Me Institute Article
While looking for some academic papers on Google Scholar, I took a moment, as an afterthought, to see whether the...
Indeterminacy in Public Expenditure: What Is a “Historic Preservation” Tax Credit?
I bristle when public policy advocates contend that persons who oppose a favored policy simply lack an understanding of “how...
Capital Before Credit
A recent article in the St. Louis Beacon posed a question to local economists that is being tossed around globally:...
In the Game of Picking Winners and Losers, the Government Picks Losers
Google Alerts recently sent me this editorial about the debate surrounding the Ford Claycomo incentive package, by Samuel Lipari on...
Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 …
While spending the week at a seminar sponsored by the Foundation for Economic Education, I’ve repeatedly noticed the presenters tripping...
