Serving Local Food Is a Daunting Task for School Districts
As we saw in Columbia, Missouri school districts that search in vain for local food to serve are getting a...
Even More on Missouri Film Tax Credits
Frédéric Bastiat My recent op-ed against film tax credits was published as a guest commentary in the Columbia Missourian today!...
Film Tax Credits Don’t Bring Lasting Jobs or Significant Revenue Gains
The new Jason Reitman film, Up in the Air, premiered at the Tivoli Theatre in University City last month. Many...
Filmmakers Vote With Their Feet
I blogged yesterday about how tax policy distributes people and businesses. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal illustrates...
Carbon Reduction Treaties Misguided
Copenhagen is becoming unlucky for the United States. Last Friday, Chicago lost its bid for the the 2016 Olympics there;...
Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity
Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama’s conference call, in which he...
High-Speed Rail Proponents Underestimate Environmental Impact
On Monday, eight Midwestern governors met in Chicago to sign a memorandum of understanding by which they committed to a...
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...
Cap and Trade Dangerous for Missouri
A cap and trade bill was narrowly passed in the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon. If passed in the...
Four-Day School Weeks in the L.A. Times
A four-day school week proposal was voted down in the Missouri Senate a few weeks ago, but the idea is...
Jefferson City Roundup
This is the part of the session where things happen fast and furious. You might think our job here at...
Two Excellent Essays About Immigration
The first is by David Nicklaus. He responds to the argument that immigrants take Americans’ jobs with this reasoning: In...
“Other People’s Money” – StL-Style
On Wednesday, Macy’s Department Stores announced that it will cut 850 jobs and close its Midwest regional headquarters in St....
Take Two
Tax incentives for film producers might not be such a good idea after all. The Post-Dispatch reports that two directors...
Justin Channels Stalin
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." — Joseph Stalin, aka Koba the Dread "No,...
Columbia, IL, Does It Right!
In St. Louis and other cities and towns in Missouri, the use of TIFs and tax incentives to encourage development...
Saint Louis Can’t Afford an Earnings Tax
Saint Louis faces a sad irony. It boasts cultural institutions that many larger cities envy — its symphony, opera theatre,...
