Thomas Piketty and Mises’s ‘The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality’
As first appearing at Mises.org: Ludwig von Mises, a mentor to Friedrich Hayek and a major figure in economics in...
Show-Me with McGraw Monday Mornings 550 KTRS
In the February 24, 2014, segment with McGraw Milhaven, David Stokes talks about the tax-exempt status of hospitals. David Stokes’s...
Missouri Should Say No to Boeing Subsidy
As originally appearing in The American Spectator on December 5, 2013: It makes your head spin! Two months ago, Gov....
Free Enterprise, Taxpayer Subsidies – Bass Pro Gets Best Of Both
As first appearing in the Springfield Business Journal on August 27, 2013: “Bass Pro Shops could only have happened in...
New Show-Me Institute Video About Olivette TIF
In 2000, Olivette officials debated a major tax subsidy for a new retail center. The subsidy was in the form...
Stokes on KWMU – TIF Hurts Communities
Shrewsbury is the latest city within Saint Louis County to consider Tax Increment Financing (known as TIFs) to subsidize a...
Shrewsburying The Free Market
On Tuesday night, the Shrewsbury Board of Aldermen approved a $15 million tax subsidy for the construction of a new...
Shrewsbury TIF Is Dead – For Now
Last night, I testified before the St. Louis County TIF (Tax Increment Financing) Commission about the proposed TIF plan for a...
2013: A TIF Odyssey
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is marching onward in Missouri. Today’s Kansas City Star has a great editorial on a proposed...
McGraw Milhaven – David Stokes on KTRS
David Stokes has a recurring spot on McGraw Milhaven’s KTRS radio program. In this appearance, Stokes and the host discuss...
Feeling At Home In The Dome
I recently attended a St. Louis Rams football game at the Edward Jones Dome. The Rams were playing the Green...
Shenanigans In Ellisville!!!
At tonight’s Ellisville City Council meeting, a charter amendment is being introduced to amend the rules for recalling elected officials...
Best Bet To Save Soulard Market? Privatization
The Soulard Farmers Market. Last month, Saint Louis City officials unveiled a plan to spend up to $18 million renovating...
Tax Increment Financing and Columbia, Missouri
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is Missouri’s bad idea that keeps coming back and refuses to die. Despite TIF’s documented failures,...
An Ellisville Business Owner’s View of the Walmart TIF
Gary Voss has run the West County Lanes in Ellisville for almost three decades. He’s never been given a tax...
What Does the Ellisville Mayor Say About the Potential Walmart TIF?
Newly elected Mayor Adam Paul is against giving a TIF for a new Walmart near the intersection of Clarkson and...
One Ellisville Citizen’s Take on a TIF for Walmart
The Ellisville City Council has given preliminary approval to a TIF for a new Walmart near the intersection of Clarkson...
Should Walmart Get a TIF In Ellisville?
The Ellisville city council has given preliminary approval for a TIF to fund development of a Walmart at the corner...
TIF Gives Cities An Unfair Advantage Over Other Governments
Would you like to be able to unilaterally take some of your neighbor’s money and spend it in ways that...
Missouri TIF Update
Tonight is the big night in Ellisville. The just-announced closure of the Best Buy in town should make the choice...
