Obamacare: Less Choice, Higher Taxes, Slower Economic Growth
As first appearing in the STL Beacon on September 30, 2013: The time for enrolling in health exchanges is now...
VIDEO: The New York Times Covers the Kansas City Border War
This weekend, The New York Times kicked off a three-part investigative series titled “The United States of Subsidies.” The series...
Will Missouri Taxpayers Have To Bail Out Public Pensions?
A recent New York Times article discusses something we have talked about on Show-Me Daily: the unrealistically rosy forecasts of...
What’s Next? Indefinite Detention Of People Who Text And Drive?
Just in time for holiday travel, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended banning the use of cell phones while...
Is Bulldozing a Way to Prosperity?
Demolition in Cleveland. Photo by Mhari Saito for NPR National Public Radio ran a segment today on a Cleveland-area land...
Saint Louis Dodged a $40 Million Bullet
On Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee announced that the 2012 Democratic National Convention will be held in Charlotte, N.C., which edged...
Education Debt: The Next Bailout?
Subsidize Over-Consume Bailout Repeat It’s a continuous cycle that that policymakers would be wise to end. Whenever the government subsidizes...
More Freedom, Please!
This past Sunday, Russian journalist Oleg Kashin wrote in the New York Times about just how abusive the Russian government can be....
The Gilded Age Comes to the Masses
George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan recently opined about how well we live compared to even the richest Americans at...
Good News: I Solved the Federal Budget Deficit!
I will not be old enough to be elected president until 2019. However, in light of the fact that I...
I Would Be Thrilled if Geoffrey Canada Were the Richest Man in the United States
On Thursday, I was fortunate to participate on a panel to discuss solutions to some of the failings of the...
Schizophrenic Public Policy on Dairy Products
On Sunday, the New York Times ran two articles about public policy for dairy products. One of the articles is...
Supreme Court Considers Education Tax Credits
The Supreme Court is revisiting the use of tax credits as a mechanism for funding education, and whether religious schools...
Diminishing Returns
Apropos of my post about income taxes last Friday, two columns that ran over the weekend dramatically illustrate the downsides...
SMI Author Quoted in New York Times Regarding Latest Stimulus Proposals
In doing some research for a post about the latest stimulus proposals, I came across this quote in the New...
Filmmaking in the Free Market: A Good Example
The New York Times recently featured a micro-lending website, Kickstarter, that connects filmmakers to private individual donors. The initiative has...
Now in Theaters: Greetings From Missouri, The Show-Me State
The Internet is ablaze with discussion of film tax credits. The New York Times published an article about government officials...
Health Care Reform Another Step in Decline of Our Economic Freedom
The passage and signing of the president’s massive health care reform legislation are the latest chapters in the socialization of...
News Article About Abuse of Unpaid Internships a Good Reason to Plug Our Paid Internships!
An interesting New York Times article carried in today’s Post-Dispatch discusses the growing issue (those who advocate greater government involvement...
“Where a Student Lives”
I’m grateful to Audrey Spalding for directing me to this op-ed in the New York Times. The author argues in...
