Kansas City Embarks on New Bad Idea
Kansas City government is going into the grocery store business near 31st Street and Prospect Avenue on the east side. According to the Kansas...
Creationism, The Left’s Weapon Against School Choice
Should taxpayers be compelled to fund schools that teach concepts that support junk science or violate their convictions? The growing...
School Choice – As American As Individual Liberty
Peter Greene is at it again. Previously, he argued conservatives should not support school choice. Now, he is arguing that...
Part Four: The Smallness Of The Potentially ‘Hip’ Core
As I have reiterated many times during this series, Missouri’s taxpayers have ample reason to be skeptical of whether “hip”...
Don’t Bank on It: When it Comes to Vacant Property, Learn from Saint Louis’ Failures
The idea of land banking is new in Philadelphia. It is also naive. The Philadelphia City Council’s proposed land banking...
Ben Franklin Would Have Let the House Burn Down, Too
Yesterday, in a rural part of northwestern Tennessee (fairly close to Missouri), a fire department refused to put out the...
SLU Economics Professors Misstate Findings of Earnings Tax Paper
In a recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch commentary (“Don’t blame the earnings tax,” May 6), Drs. Lisa Gladson and Jack Strauss...
Taxes in Philly and My Talk With a City Official on the Earnings Tax
Earlier this week, I went to an after-work charity event where I was engaged by a city official — who I won’t...
Taxes and Sports: The Earnings Tax (Part One in a Series)
This is the first in what will be a series of posts on taxation and professional sports in Missouri written...
Maybe When Service Drops to One Day a Week, We Can Eliminate Its Monopoly Protection?
The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t want to deliver mail on Saturday anymore. Facing a large budget gap, the USPS is...
Will Missouri Districts Compete for Students?
Choice between school districts is up for consideration this legislative session. Choice is a foreign concept for school districts, but...
Obstructing the Will of the People
Here at Show-Me Daily, we have long documented the efforts of the Missouri Municipal League to prevent this state’s citizens...
Breakfast Accountability
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the School District of Philadelphia is going to start evaluating principals by, among other things,...
Snail Mail Payouts
In an effort to cut expenses, the U.S. Postal Service is offering to pay employees to retire or resign by...
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,...
More on Crazy Licensing Requirements in the Wall Street Journal
Last week, the Journal reported on a comedy troupe that’s being hounded by regulators. Today, there’s another article about regulators...
Lest We Think 1 Percent Is Small
Everyone knows that April’s showers bring May’s flowers. Unfortunately, it also brings Missourians’ tax bills. This year, individuals, businesses, and...
Beer Bloggles
There is nothing I would rather do more than blog about beer — except maybe drink beer while blogging about...
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