Attorney General Chris Koster Should Join the Multistate Health Care Lawsuit in Florida
When they passed Proposition C last August, Missourians demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to the federal health care reform law. They...
More Evidence Against State Income Taxes
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial by economist Art Laffer about the negative impact of state income...
Growth by State
Many variables affect a state’s economic growth, including public policy, natural resources, geographic location, business centers, etc. The large number of contributing...
Tax Credits Are an Undesirable Strategy for Missouri
There was some classic rent-seeking behavior in the editorial section of the Post-Dispatch yesterday: An architect touts historic preservation tax...
Should We Save, or Should They Go?
No one wants businesses to abandon communities. After all, here in St. Louis we saw what happened to Downtown West...
Missouri’s Tax Freedom Day Falls on April 4
Today, the Tax Foundation released its annual Tax Freedom Day Special Report. According to the foundation’s calculations, Missouri’s “Tax Freedom...
Honey, I Shrunk the Legislature
A very encouraging post on the Freakonomics blog today mentions that the Maine state legislature recently proposed a bill that...
It Is Time for Education Reform
The Columbia Daily Tribune reported early last month that Education Week‘s annual “Quality Counts” report on public education found that...
Subprime Doghouse Mortgage Foreclosures Skyrocket
It’s always the little four-legged guys who get stepped on in these turbulent economic times. The Kansas City Star reports...
More Lunacy Regarding Anheuser-Busch
Criticism of the Anheuser-Busch deal has grown increasingly ridiculous. In a particularly glaring example of one-sided electioneering, the Post-Dispatch reveals...
Fun With Numbers
Dave Stokes pointed me to an interesting source of information on payday lending in Missouri. Because I’ve written before about...
Slap Happy Days Are Here Again…
It is every elected officials’ favorite question: What to do with a budget surplus? The Post-Dispatch has a good article...
