I’m Tempted to Spend My Day on Missouri Case Net to See What Else Can Be Uncovered
The subsidized health care cooperative in Cape Girardeau that I recently discussed is back in the news. From an article...
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“Now, [Celebrity] Sightings Are Anytime, Any Place”
In an email, a regular Show-Me Daily reader alerted me to a post on the Iowa-based Tax Update Blog. The...
State Film Tax Credit Program Reading List
In Mound City Money, David Nicklaus highlights a recent study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities that demonstrates...
Film Tax Credit Programs: Lessons Learned From Iowa
In response to recent scandals in Iowa’s film tax credit program, the state auditor’s office released a report about the...
No One Wants to Poison Their Customers
In August, consumers across America were frightened by news of a salmonella outbreak traced to several farms in Iowa. The...
New Michigan Study: Film Tax Credit Program Does Not Pay for Itself
Supporters of film tax credit programs argue that these programs generate more revenue than they cost. Over at Mound City...
Iowa Is Cutting Its Film Tax Credit Program Permanently (And Missouri Should, Too!)
Remember how, earlier this year, some individuals abused Iowa’s film tax credit program by inflating expenses and buying luxury vehicles?...
Growth by State
Many variables affect a state’s economic growth, including public policy, natural resources, geographic location, business centers, etc. The large number of contributing...
Additional Negative Consequences of Targeted Tax Credits
The June 2010 issue of Governing features an article about the discussion surrounding film tax credits. Despite the fact that...
Blindly Picking Winners and Losers
Facing declining tax revenues, Gov. Jay Nixon is pushing a proposal to cap the amount that Missouri hands out in...
Missouri: Land of Relatively Low Taxes on Beer, Wine, Spirits, Cigarettes, & Gasoline!
I used the Show-Me Institute’s newest web tool, IDEAS: Interactive Database for Economic Analysis and Synthesis, to compare the tax...
Missouri’s Tax Freedom Day Falls on April 4
Today, the Tax Foundation released its annual Tax Freedom Day Special Report. According to the foundation’s calculations, Missouri’s “Tax Freedom...
What Is the Point of This Interactive Map?
The Census Bureau has created a map that allows you to track Census mail participation rates, which the bureau defines...
“Rightsizing State Government”
I stole the title for this blog entry from Gov. Jay Nixon’s speech the other day. I haven’t discussed it sooner,...
Déjà Vu
On Friday’s CBS “Early Show,” I saw a segment about a new government program that offers consumers cash rebates to...
Home Birth Statistics
The National Center for Health Statistics has released a report on out-of-hospital births. In 2006, 64.7 percent of such births...
May I Have A Taxpayer-Subsidized Land Rover, Too?
[NOTE: Since the original publication of this blog entry, additional information has been released about the filmmakers accused of purchasing...
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Chicken
An op-ed in the Daily Iowan refutes some arguments against urban chickens, including one I hadn’t heard before: Bailey was...
How Does Missouri Health Care Compare?
A recent news article compared cost and quality of health care across all the states of our country. We are...
Ethanol on My Mind
I have been thinking about ethanol lately because the hotel with which our office building shares a parking garage seems...
