A Healthy Trend
Yahoo! Finance is reporting the largest annual federal budget deficit in history. In FY2008, the U.S. government will post a...
Lower Tax Rates More Efficient Than Tax Credits
Tax credits are a hot topic in the Missouri Legislature. Fans of these instruments assert that tax credits are necessary...
Sergio Leone Analyzes the Missouri Legislature and More!
The good, the bad, the depressingly ugly, a fistful of dollars, just a few dollars more, and once upon a...
Recent Articles From SMI Writers and Economists
If you are a fan of our blog you may not have seen some of the latest op-eds and other...
Letting Big Brother Watch Less
Periodically here at the Show-Me Institute, we like to look through the rolls of pending bills in the Missouri General...
Juicing the Issue
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met yesterday for the second inning of its finger-pointing, denial-giving, not-talking-about-the-past examination...
Missouri Teachers Voice Support for School Choice
When the Missouri General Assembly reconvenes in January, true education reform should be at the top of its agenda. Missourians,...
Homeschooling in the Post-Dispatch
The Post-Dispatch reported in an article today that an estimated 6,000 children in St. Louis are being homeschooled. Homeschooling is...
A Failed Effort to Redirect Medications
The Southeast Missourian reports on another government health care program that doesn’t work: A few years ago, as prescription drug...
Taxing for Better Roads!
In today’s Columbia Missourian, an article discusses the problems that the Missouri Legislature is having in finding an appropriate amount...
Missouri Leads the Way to Free-Market Health Care Reform
Missouri residents may soon have the chance to take control of their health insurance. Although the standard employer-based model...
