Businesses Should Be Allowed to Keep a Percentage of Tax Collections
The state auditor recently released an audit of sales tax collections in Missouri. Part of the audit analyzes how the...
Homeschoolers Ask for Charter Status
A group of homeschooling parents in Oregon have applied to form a charter school. They want to continue homeschooling, and...
Show Me Liberty!
Do you have plans tonight? The Saint Louis chapter of Liberty on the Rocks is meeting today at 6 p.m....
Here Is a Government Program That Absolutely Should Not Exist
The St. Louis Business-Journal has a story about what one government program has recently done. The Business-Journal article is just...
More About the Earnings Tax
The 1-percent earnings tax on Kansas City and St. Louis residents and workers has received a lot of press as...
Show-Me Institute in the Media, and Dr. Haslag on With McGraw Tomorrow
We have had a rather busy week or so in the media. More important than the past, though, is the...
A Land Tax Is Preferable to the Earnings Tax
Thomas McClanahan of the Kansas City Star explains in an editorial that Kansas City would benefit if it repealed the...
Explaining Teach for America Graduates’ Lack of Activism
A study has found Teach for America graduates to be less politically active than people who were accepted into the...
O Ye of Little Faith in Transit-Oriented Development
There is a decent article in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch about proposals for transit-oriented development in St. Louis. I say...
The U.S. Census Is Not Your Family Scrapbook
The Constitution is a product of the Founders’ wisdom, and that includes its provisions for the national Census. Taking a...
St. Louis Made the Right Call in Giving Vaccine to Retailers
This Post-Dispatch article about the H1N1 vaccine mentions that St. Louis city sent most of its vaccine supply to hospitals...
Enhanced Enterprise Zone in Webster County
According to an article in The Springfield News-Leader, Webster County in Missouri is seeking designation as an Enhanced Enterprise Zone...
Neighborhood Associations Put Technology to Good Use
This article about neighborhood associations reminded me of a post I wrote earlier in the year, in which I argued...
Paid Internship Opportunity for the Summer!
Last summer, I had the privilege of being a Koch Summer Fellow for the Show-Me Institute. It was a terrific...
Missouri Would Be a Good Home for a Charter School Incubator
Nashville’s mayor has announced the creation of a charter school incubator to train principals. The center will start out as...
Mayor Slay Overestimates Economic Impact of Up in the Air
In this KMOX article from yesterday, Saint Louis Mayor Francis Slay comments about Missouri’s film tax credit program: They (filmmakers)...
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...
Now I Know What To Wear When I Go Skiing This Winter
Why the long face, North Face? I’ll be going on my annual ski trip later this winter, and now I know what...
Film Tax Credits Don’t Bring Lasting Jobs or Significant Revenue Gains
The new Jason Reitman film, Up in the Air, premiered at the Tivoli Theatre in University City last month. Many...
Horrible Stuff Up and Down New Federal Spending Bill
This is just a depressing AP article on federal budget expenditures, from beginning to end. This has everything you need...
