Taking Issue With the Post-Dispatch on Taxes and Growth
Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a staff editorial doubting the idea that the dynamic effects of reducing taxes encourage...
Wow: Missouri Accounts For Nearly One-In-Seven Historic Preservation Tax Credit Projects
So say stats from the National Park Service that were delivered to the reconstituted Missouri Tax Credit Review Commission last week....
Help Wanted: High-Performing Teachers Need Not Apply
As the Chicago teacher’s strike carries into its second week, many interesting facts are coming to light. We know the...
Making The Most Of The Weekend
Missouri’s annual back-to-school sales tax holiday officially started last night at 12:01 a.m. Until midnight on Sunday, thousands of fashionistas,...
Is This The Best We Can Do?
In their struggle to pull Missouri out of the economic doldrums, policymakers in Jefferson City have proposed expanding a tax...
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,...
Missouri Can Compete – Despite Recent Poor Performance
Consider two teams on divergent paths — the Missouri Tigers and the Missouri Widgets. Clearly, the football Tigers are on...
Reminder From Illinois: It Could Be Worse
I recently lamented Missouri’s lack of action compared to Kansas in reforming the state’s tax code and making the state...
Stuck In The Middle With You
I have not been shy about criticizing Missouri’s lack of movement toward real, substantive tax reform. Now, Kansas has beaten...
Why a Whopping Increase in Missouri’s Cigarette Tax Is a Bad Idea
While growing up in the small border town of Atchison, Kan., my father, uncles, and family friends made frequent trips...
TIF Is A Bad Idea That Refuses To Die
Tax increment financing (TIF) is the Rasputin of Saint Louis County – the bad idea that keeps coming back and...
Missouri Should Lower Barriers For Out-of-State Charitable Medical Missions
Licensing laws are typically seen as a way to ensure that members of a profession are well-trained and, thus, their...
Will Missouri Impose One Mandate As It Fights Another?
Regarding health care, Missouri’s legislature is getting it right on at least one front. On the one hand, it is...
The Cautionary Tale Next Door
The state of Illinois recently encountered some bad news. Moody’s downgraded Illinois’s credit rating from A2 to A1, the lowest...
Should Missouri Toll I-70?
Think about the difference in the taxes that property owners pay to fund local parks and the entrance fee your...
Among the Blackhawks Fans
Please check out our latest video where we ask Chicago Blackhawks fans if they intend to take advantage of Missouri’s...
High-Speed Rail Supporters Are Just Making Things Up
Over at the St. Louis Beacon, high-speed spending (and rail) enthusiast Rick Harnish is just flat-out misleading people to get...
‘Aerotropolis’ Bill: A Giant Step Backwards in Public Policy
For many years, I have worked to promote free-market solutions to a broad range of public policy issues in the...
Missouri Privatization Roundup
There has been a great deal happening on the issue of privatization throughout our state. Tony’s Kansas City has been...
New Ethanol Mandates From Washington
My father founded and ran several area gas stations until his death. At first, he embraced the use of oil...
