The Earnings Tax Is Still Bad, for All the Reasons We’ve Already Said
The Kansas City Star‘s website has a piece today by two Saint Louis University professors arguing against the repeal of...
“Fair Tax” Math, Elucidated
The purpose of this post is to walk through the math that Dr. Joseph Haslag and Abhi Sivasailam used in...
Great Article About the Land Tax in the Kansas City Star
This weekend, KC Star columnist E. Thomas McClanahan had a terrific article about the benefits of replacing earnings taxes with...
Clarification in the Fair Tax Proposal Debate
Today, the Missouri Budget Project published a piece that attempts to address the Show-Me Institute study about the “Fair Tax”...
The Missouri Budget Project Is Wrong
When you keep repeating an error that others have corrected for you and explained to you multiple times why it...
How a Sales Tax System Could Replace the State Income Tax
Missouri’s General Assembly is considering a resolution that would allow Missourians to vote on a constitutional amendment that would eliminate...
Pick Your Poison: Income Tax or Sales Tax
I attended the Show-Me Institute’s forum on Missouri’s tax system in Columbia yesterday, which featured a spirited debate about the...
A Rising Tide Floats All Boats
Many critics of the “Fair Tax” argue that it would hurt people who have lower incomes. This is not completely...
Addressing the FairTax Critics … Again
Missourinet reports on the recent back and forth between supporters and detractors of a change in Missouri tax code. The...
A Land Tax Is Preferable to the Earnings Tax
Thomas McClanahan of the Kansas City Star explains in an editorial that Kansas City would benefit if it repealed the...
Domestic Migration and Tax Policy
New York’s higher-income residents are fleeing the state, and they are taking their tax dollars with them. The New York...
Minimum Wage
Yesterday, John Combest linked to a KOMU article about minimum wage and its effects on the youth work force. As...
Missouri’s Ticking Pension Time Bomb
The front page article in today’s Post-Dispatch is about the underfunding of Missouri’s public employee pension programs. This is a...
Missouri Suffers From the Saint Louis and Kansas City Earnings Taxes
The Saint Louis and Kansas City earnings taxes, 1-percent income taxes imposed on those living or working within city limits,...
Benefits of Eliminating the Income Tax
The Sunday edition of the Columbia Daily Tribune featured an op-ed written by Dr. Joseph Haslag, Michael Owens, and Caitlin...
What Does the State Income Tax Cost Missourians?
The recession has dominated economic news of late. As with any downturn, there is an opportunity now to reevaluate the...
Earnings Tax Burden Is Too Heavy
In a recent article for the St. Louis Beacon, the Show-Me Institute’s vice president Joseph Haslag and intern Alex Schulte...
Let Them Pay Taxes!
The Springfield News-Leader reported today on the task force created to address the pension deficit in Springfield. The pension plan...
What Does the Earnings Tax Cost Saint Louis and Kansas City?
Missouri’s two largest cities are shrinking relative to the rest of the United States. The city of Saint Louis is...
SMI in the Springfield News-Leader Today
We have two pieces published in the Springfield News-Leader today. First, Dr. Joseph Haslag has an op-ed about why Springfield...
