State Audit Recommends Sunset Of Historic Preservation Tax Credit
You saw the original, and now here’s the sequel. Just weeks after producing an excellent report on Missouri’s Low Income...
A Voter ID Victory In Pennsylvania: Missouri, Take Note
Yesterday, a Pennsylvania judge rejected a challenge to a state law that requires photo identification to vote in Pennsylvania. Far...
Risky Business
In 2006, Indiana leased its 157-mile toll road to private investors for a $3.8 billion lump sum payment. The lease...
Kudos, Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato
When politicians are doing the right thing, it’s appropriate for us to congratulate them and highlight their good decisions. This...
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...
Public Service Academy, Forestry Division
A small Oregon school district has found a way to gain new students. It’s converted to a charter specializing in...
News Flash: Restricting Market Transactions Leads to a Victimless Crime
If Pennsylvania were to rescind its remaining restrictions on ticket scalping, this kind of thing would happen less often.
Government Approval ? the Ultimate Measure of a Virtual School?
Edspresso links to this essay by Hope Frick, a virtual school student in Pennsylvania. She’s written an articulate explanation of...
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,...
The Future of Highway Funding
The Kansas City Star reports on the increasing support for a plan to scrap and replace the fuel tax. The...
Will/Can/Should the Senate Seat Roland Burris?
I am going to focus on the larger issue here, and avoid the scandal discussions and political debate. All I...
Business Journal Article About Our Pension Study
The St. Louis Business Journal has an online story about the study of Missouri’s public pensions that the Show-Me Institute...
This Bud’s for Them
We’ve praised Sen. Claire McCaskill repeatedly on this blog, but her comments about the InBev deal deserve some response: “I...
Beer Bloggles
There is nothing I would rather do more than blog about beer — except maybe drink beer while blogging about...
Election Week: The Perils of Frontloading
This morning, it was all supposed to be over. Two candidates were promised to rise above the masses and act...
How to Spur Budding Industries
I have to disagree a bit with Steve’s assertion that doling out state money will “drive Missouri’s budding biotech industry.”...
Earnings Taxes and Wal-Mart
Today’s announcement by Wal-Mart got me thinking about this study by the Show-Me Institute. Wal-Mart is opening 9 new stores...
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