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North Carolina and American Express Provide a Good Example

North Carolina and American Express Provide a Good Example

May 26, 2010

According to an editorial in the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C., American Express chose that state’s Guilford County as...

Audit Confirms What Show-Me Institute Scholars Have Said All Along: Tax Credits Are Overhyped

Audit Confirms What Show-Me Institute Scholars Have Said All Along: Tax Credits Are Overhyped

Apr 29, 2010

On Monday, Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee released a study of tax credit cost controls. The audit’s conclusions have been...

How to Save $26.6 Million Annually

How to Save $26.6 Million Annually

Mar 29, 2010

Having a huge state budget deficit does have positive consequences, albeit few. One particular example is that the Missouri state...

A Star Is Born!

A Star Is Born!

Mar 17, 2010

Show-Me Institute research assistant John Payne, who has been spreading free-market wisdom all over the television and radio as of...

Radio Appearance Imminent!

Radio Appearance Imminent!

Mar 10, 2010

This notice may be too late for those of you who read our blog to tune in, but for those...

Taxes and Government Spending Undermine Economic Growth

Taxes and Government Spending Undermine Economic Growth

Mar 10, 2010

  With stimulus spending one of the most contentious issues in a very contentious political year, politicians of all stripes...

Turn On, Tune In, Drop By

Turn On, Tune In, Drop By

Mar 6, 2010

Sorry for the late notice, but two Show-Me Institute staffers will be making appearances later today — one on the...

SMI Research Assistant John Payne on FOX 2 tonight at 10:00

SMI Research Assistant John Payne on FOX 2 tonight at 10:00

Mar 2, 2010

Charles Jaco just finished taping an interview with Show-Me Institute research assistant John Payne, about the Metro mass transit system...

MetroLink Expansion a Bad Idea

MetroLink Expansion a Bad Idea

Feb 16, 2010

Show-Me Institute research assistant John Payne recently had an op-ed published in the Riverfront Times about the proposed tax hike...

Adding New MetroLink Lines Too Costly, Inefficient

Adding New MetroLink Lines Too Costly, Inefficient

Feb 16, 2010

It is odd to hear serious discussion of expanding MetroLink when the Metro system faces a $50 million shortfall and...

Judge Suggests That Missouri Should Be Run Like a Business

Judge Suggests That Missouri Should Be Run Like a Business

Feb 12, 2010

Last week, Judge William Price, the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court, delivered the State of the Judiciary address....

More on Restricting Credit for Poor People

More on Restricting Credit for Poor People

Jan 6, 2010

John Payne’s post today, “Restricting Credit for Poor People,” relates to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal from earlier...

Keep on Pushing That Boulder, Sisyphus

Keep on Pushing That Boulder, Sisyphus

Dec 10, 2009

Before I get into the meat of this post, I should introduce myself because I am the new guy around...

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