Audrey Spalding and Christine Harbin Talk China Hub Tomorrow Morning
Tune into the McGraw Milhaven radio show on The Big 550, KTRS, tomorrow at 9 a.m. to hear Audrey Spalding...
Benefits of China Hub Focused on Saint Louis; All Missouri Taxpayers Forced to Pick Up $480 Million Tab
Tax credit programs like the proposed China hub are a form of wealth redistribution: Only the favored few benefit, and...
China Hub Tax Incentives More Expensive Than Advertised
Saint Louis politicians, media, and bloggers have enthusiastically embraced proposed legislation that would create a package of tax credits and...
More Good News for People Who Want to Buy Vacant City Property
After hearing about Show-Me Institute research finding that the city of Saint Louis was turning down almost one out of...
Two Thumbs Down for Downtown Theater Subsidy
Last Friday’s St. Louis Business Journal reports that movies will soon return to downtown St. Louis more than eight years after...
Free-Market Field Trip: Food Truck Edition – Stay Tuned!
It was sunny and in the 70s yesterday — I couldn’t picture a better day to grab a cupcake and...
Is It Redevelopment? Or Is It Politics?
In 2010, no fewer than four different people tried to buy 2925 Union Blvd., the building pictured below. During an...
Subsidizing Exports Will Do More Harm Than Good for Missouri
China already imports free-marketpolicy analysts from Missouri. State lawmakers want to turn Saint Louis into an international cargo hub. Sounds...
New Evidence Demonstrates How Earnings Taxes Harm City Growth
Voters in Saint Louis and Kansas City will soon vote on whether to retain their respective city earnings taxes. What’s...
The Earnings Tax Debate: Argle-Bargle or Foofaraw?
Show-Me Institute scholars and analysts have been activily involved in debates about the earnings taxes in St. Louis and Kansas...
Good News For People Who Want to Buy Vacant City Property
What a difference a few months make. The Saint Louis Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) held its monthly meeting today, and...
Why Spend More Than $400 Million to Subsidize Warehouse Construction?
From today’s Post-Dispatch: “St. Louis’ dreams of becoming a gateway for Chinese air cargo are going to need some more...
Food Truck Sighting in the Central West End!
Now that I have my eyes open for food trucks, I see them nearly everywhere I go! While I was...
Charter Schools Boost Graduation Rates and College Attendance
A study (non-gated, working version) in the latest Journal of Labor Economics shows that students attending charter schools are significantly...
The Saint Louis Earnings Tax Is Bad for Our Health – But Do We Care?
Call it “the smoker’s dilemma”: Everyone knows that smoking kills, but a habitual smoker may be convinced that he requires...
The Effects of Municipal Taxation: Roman Empire Edition
Right now, I’m reading The Rule of Empires by Washington University history professor Timothy Parsons (who was my history advisor...
Why Do Food Trucks Park Side by Side?
When I was in Washington, D.C., recently, I saw two food trucks as soon as I hopped off the Metro...
Op-Ed by David Stokes About the St. Louis Earnings Tax in the Post-Dispatch Yesterday
Yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an op-ed that I wrote about the upcoming vote on the earnings tax in...
Cranky Yellow Quaffs Bitter Bureaucracy
Ever seen the movie Brazil? When the main character wants his A/C fixed, the opaque and monolithic government forces him...
A Second Chance
Anthony Barber wants to open a barbecue restaurant in north Saint Louis. But last summer, the city rejected his bid...
