Missouri’s Fuel Taxes in Context
On March 1, Iowa increased its fuel taxes by 10 cents per gallon. Other states, including Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota, and...
The Good and Not-So-Good News from Missouri’s Labor Market
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released its report on state employment (see Table 5) allowing us to see how...
Iowa, Nebraska, and Arkansas Legislators Gear Up for Income Tax Cuts
In 2014 the Missouri Legislature passed a modest income tax reduction which, given its size, by no means solved the...
Education Savings Accounts Are Good For Kids
On Feb. 24, the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger published an editorial supporting the establishment of education savings accounts (ESA) in the Magnolia...
Nursing Better Health Care In Missouri
Imagine being a working mother in rural Missouri with a sick child. He needs medical attention but there are no...
The Master’s Degree Bump Boondoggle
I have heard a lot of bellyaching lately in Missouri about how we need more money for education. However, little...
In Case There Were Any Doubts About The ‘Growth Corridor’ We’re In, Here’s Another Data Point
Today, Show-Me Institute Research Fellow Rik Hafer wrote in the St. Louis Beacon about a recent CNBC business survey and how...
False Pride: Missouri’s Governor Shouldn’t Be Boasting About “Low” Unemployment
As first appearing in the Weekly Standard on July 7th, 2013 (a slightly different version ran in the July 14th...
Stokes on KWMU – TIF Hurts Communities
Shrewsbury is the latest city within Saint Louis County to consider Tax Increment Financing (known as TIFs) to subsidize a...
The Corporate Income Tax . . . Leaving Missouri Behind?
The Cato Institute recently released its “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2012.” Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Patrick Ishmael...
Kansas Governor Earns ‘A’ On Fiscal Report Card; Missouri Governor Gets ‘C’
On Tuesday, the Cato Institute published the latest edition of its Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, a biennial...
Should Missouri Participate In A Bernie Madoff-Type Scheme?
First came the threat. Then the bribe, or the offer that sounds almost too good to be true. Now it...
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...
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...
A Free Speech Win In Saint Louis
St. Louis resident Jim Roos, in front of the offending sign. Photo by the Institute for Justice. Good news for...
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...
What Will The Neighbors Think?
Despite the recent adjournment of the Missouri Legislature’s special session (which cost Missouri taxpayers more than $280,000), it wasn’t a...
Missouri’s Ticking Pension Time Bomb? Will the Money be There?
Those who follow this blog are aware of the Show-Me Institute’s interest in Missouri’s 130-plus public pension systems. Tens of thousands of...
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...
