Subsidizing Exports Will Do More Harm Than Good for Missouri
China already imports free-marketpolicy analysts from Missouri. State lawmakers want to turn Saint Louis into an international cargo hub. Sounds...
Missouri and Utah Compete for Filmmakers’ Favor Using Tax Credits
While I was up in the air traveling over the weekend, I found an article in my in-flight magazine that...
Tune in Monday morning!
For all the early birds, I’ll be on Joplin’s 1310 KZRG Morning Newswatch Monday morning at 7:40 a.m., to talk...
Seventh Signature and the Bill is Free!
The governor will be jetting around Missouri over the coming week for ceremonial signings of H.B. 1311, the Autism Spectrum...
Not Against Children With Autism ? Against Mandates
As the legislative session comes to a close this week, a number of bills have supporters who are eager to...
Legitimizing Tax Stacking a Bad Move
Municipalities that employ tax stacking — levying multiple sales taxes above the state cap of 1.5 percent — may soon...
Obstructing the Will of the People
Here at Show-Me Daily, we have long documented the efforts of the Missouri Municipal League to prevent this state’s citizens...
Missouri’s Health Care Disparity Problem
Most Missouri doctors work in densely populated communities, while areas needing physicians appear unable to attract them. Although health care...
How Good Is Health Care in Missouri?
Many of my friends are involved in discussions about health care. A common thing I hear is that people are...
Pork vs. Earmarks: What’s the Difference?
I think it is great that the candidates for the open congressional seat in Southwest Missouri are having an ongoing...
Shout Out to Mr. Tiebout
According to a Post-Dispatch article the city of Joplin will no longer allow teachers in its public schools to show...
Caution: This Sign Has Sharp Edges
In Gray Summit, there is a road called, unimaginatively, Old Gray Summit Road. This is a curvy road with lots...
Misguided
Last summer, Ethan Cory, a six-year-old boy from the Joplin area, drowned at a small private water park called “The...
Court’s Eminent Domain Ruling Endangers Property Rights
For decades, the property rights of Missouri residents have been disregarded as municipalities throughout the state plowed through personal history...
Show-Me Institute Interview on KY3 in Springfield
The release of our most recent study, about transportation in MIssouri, was accompanied by a very successful media tour through...
Driving in Missouri Takes its Toll
In an editorial published late last night, the Joplin Globe argues against instituting tolls on Missouri highways. The piece points...
Bad Use of Incentives
An editorial in the Joplin Globe titled "Good Use of Incentives" praises the proposed Missouri Quality Jobs Act: Without the...
Minimum Wage provides minimum advantages
Governor Blunt recently changed his mind about Missouri’s new Minimum Wage laws. Initially, January’s minimum wage increase applied only to...
