The Most Unkindest Tax of All
We’ve written a great deal about the various forms of taxation in Missouri. Some taxes are too high, some may...
Arise and Shine, Missouri lawmakers: You Have Nothing to Lose but a Long History of Bad Performance.
What’s wrong with you, Missouri lawmakers? Why so weak and feckless? This is your conscience calling. I speak to all...
Is This How Trust Is Regained?
After voters rejected implementing a local use tax in November, the Columbia City Council made it their mission to win...
On Raising the Minimum Wage in Missouri
On December 1, members of the Missouri General Assembly may begin prefiling legislation for consideration in the upcoming legislative session,...
Session Notes: ESAs Clear the Senate!
Yesterday afternoon, the Missouri Senate passed Senate Bill 313, which would create a $25 million tax-credit-funded education savings account (ESA)...
ESAs Can Help Missouri Students with Dyslexia
For years, Kelli Unnerstall wrestled with private and public schools to get her son with dyslexia the help he needed...
The Missing Element in the 2016 Legislative Session
In the 2016 session of the Missouri Legislature, our lawmakers expended millions of words on dozens of issues – everything...
Missouri Legislature Looks to Further Regulate Payday Loans
Payday loans are high-interest, short-term loans that are most commonly used in low-income communities. Because high interest rates (often above...
Minimum Wage Hike on Ice?
To say the proposed minimum wage hike in the city of Saint Louis has been controversial is an understatement. We’ve been on top of the issue since...
What Should a Charter School Application Look Like?
In 2012, the Missouri Board of Education closed six Imagine charter schools. The Imagine network is one of the largest...
Recognizing the Need to Cut Corporate Income Taxes
In this past session, the Missouri Legislature addressed several important policy areas. At the Show-Me Institute’s latest Policy Breakfast, Senators...
Highway Funding Proposals Stall in Missouri Legislature
When the legislative session began earlier this year, there was some hope that policymakers would be able to modernize the...
Beware Medicaid Expansion, Even If It Is Billed as Reform
As first appearing in the Columbia Missourian: “Beware the Greeks bearing gifts” is one of the better-known sayings in...
Commentary: Gas Tax Increase Is Sound Policy
Recently, the Columbia Daily Tribune published our op-ed on how the plan for a small increase in the fuel tax,...
Fears of Private Toll Roads Promote Government Control, Waste
We recently commented on how a bill in the Missouri Legislature, SB 540, would allow MoDOT to lease part of...
Legislature’s Gas Tax Increase Is Sound Policy
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune: How did you get to work this morning? How were the groceries...
Health Care Bills On the Move from the House to the Senate
We’re approaching the end of the session, and it’s worth highlighting a few health care-related bills that are winding through the...
Tolling Coming to I-70?
With the prospect of a fuel tax increase looking more and more remote in the Missouri Legislature, policymakers are once...
What Does It Mean to “Have Health Care”?
This question has come into sharp focus just five years after the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) passage. Does it mean having...
Fewer Mandates, More Choices Needed in Education
Schools today are asked to teach a lot more than reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic; and if lawmakers have their way,...
