A Rare, Wonderful Opportunity To Deliver Better Health Care To Missouri’s Underserved
In February, I wrote at length about an important charitable organization, Remote Area Medical (RAM), which delivers free health care...
Stiff Necks and Sore Shoulders: A Statewide Concern
The state is taxing the wrong things. For those of us who are employed, April 17 looms and a nice...
Missouri Should Lower Barriers For Out-of-State Charitable Medical Missions
Licensing laws are typically seen as a way to ensure that members of a profession are well-trained and, thus, their...
Left Behind
A recent Wall Street Journal article notes the increasing push from state governments to eliminate or reduce personal income taxes. This...
Should Teachers Get Grades, Too?
Tennessee has recently taken an important step toward ensuring that its public schools provide a quality education by setting up...
Eco-Devo Mad Libs: So, Are 5,000, 29,000, or 37,000 Jobs Being Saved or Created With “Aerotropolis”?
This is one of the biggest supposed selling points of spending $300 million on warehouses, and yet apparently none of...
Gooooooaaaaaaaallllll!!!!! Supply-Side Economics, 1; Missouri, Nil
As Americans, we often don’t enjoy hearing how some country in Europe is doing something better than the United States....
Illinois Scrambles as Sears Looks for an Exit
Two weeks ago, I noted that our cross-border friends in Illinois had an economic mess on their hands. Unemployment’s high...
Eliminating Missouri’s Income Tax Is One Road to Greater Prosperity
A current legislative proposal seeks to eliminate Missouri’s income tax and replace it with a higher sales tax rate. It...
Eliminating Income Tax Would Lead to Faster Growth, Despite Opponents’ Scare Tactics
The scare is on. Some wild economic predictions have been put forward by Amy Blouin, director of the Missouri Budget...
Striking Correlations Between Income Taxes and Congressional Reapportionment
Only seven states levy absolutely no income tax. According to the U.S. Census data released today, only eight states will...
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...
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...
Importance of Quality in Primary Education
If you’re like me, you too have spent the past few months eagerly awaiting the release of a certain academic...
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...
Missouri: Land of Relatively Low Taxes on Beer, Wine, Spirits, Cigarettes, & Gasoline!
I used the Show-Me Institute’s newest web tool, IDEAS: Interactive Database for Economic Analysis and Synthesis, to compare the tax...
Missouri and the Show-Me Institute Featured in Rich States Poor States
Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Jonathan Williams recently published the third edition of Rich States Poor States: ALEC-Laffer...
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...
Poverty and Health Care in Missouri
Last year, the American Journal of Medicine included a disturbing story about bankruptcy in America. In that study of five...
Update on Homeschooling Family
The German family that fled to Tennessee in search of freedom to homeschool has been granted political asylum. They can...
