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...
Show-Me Minutes
Listen to these minute-long audios from the Show-Me Institute about free-market ideas: Accounting: Missouri is behind in funding its public...
Going Too Far To Limit Voter Input
There are at least two efforts in the Missouri General Assembly to prevent the ability of local voters to restrict...
Show-Me at the Lake, Thursday Mornings on KRMS
David Stokes weekly appearance with Manny Haley of KRMS. In the November 21 show, Stokes and Haley discussed zoning for...
Show-Me Minute: Tax Subsidies
The Show-Me Minute is a short radio advertisement to inform listeners about the work of the Show-Me Institute in a...
Lee’s Summit And The Road Not Taken
The Lee’s Summit City Council voted overwhelmingly to end its consideration of Enhanced Enterprise Zones (EEZs). This is a good...
The Establishment Strikes Back
The publisher of the Lee’s Summit Journal is not at all impressed with his neighbors’ method for objecting to government policy....
Democracy Alive And Well In Lee’s Summit
On May 23, the Lee’s Summit Enhanced Enterprise Zone (EEZ) Advisory Committee held a public meeting to collect feedback on a...
Lee’s Summit EEZ: A Solution In Search Of A Problem
As published in Lee’s Summit Journal: In 2006 and again in 2010, Money Magazine cited Lee’s Summit as one of...
Ray County Does Not Need Enhanced Enterprise Zones
Let the citizens of Ray County beware: You may think that a nice little sprinkling of government subsidies — done...
Three Ways Bad Public Policy Hurts Missouri
In this February 2013 Show-Me Forum, Policy Analysts David Stokes and Patrick Ishmael detail some of the specific bad public...
Callaway County Does Not Need An EEZ
Let the citizens of Callaway County beware: You may think that a nice little sprinkling of government subsidies — done...
TIF Menace Growing in Missouri
Like monsters in a horror film, Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts keep coming back larger and more rapacious. Officials in...
Why Enhanced Enterprise Zones Are A Bad Deal For Missouri Cities
Sometimes acronyms are designed to create a false impression. That is the case with Enhanced Enterprise Zones, or EEZs, which...
Tax Increment Financing and Columbia, Missouri
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is Missouri’s bad idea that keeps coming back and refuses to die. Despite TIF’s documented failures,...
What Is The Matter With Columbia?
The demolition of the Regency Hotel site. Photo by Timmy Huynh of the Columbia Missourian. Since 2005, the City of Columbia...
EEZs Are An EZ Path To Corporate Welfare
In a very funny 1983 episode of “Family Ties,” the father, Steven Keaton, reads an FBI file describing his mild...
What Cannot Be Blighted?
Last month, half of Columbia was declared blighted. This produced concerns of impeding eminent domain, even leading to the creation...
