Kansas City Council Should Say November Oscar to Hotel Bravo
The developers of a luxury hotel proposed for downtown Kansas City are back seeking major tax subsidies for their proposal....
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Residential TIF Versus School Districts
The St. Louis TIF Commission approved a second phase of the City Foundry TIF project by a vote of 5...
Missouri’s $17 Million Grocery Store
The Crestwood TIF Commission is considering a proposal to redevelop the land that was once the Crestwood Mall. The plan...
Missouri Has A Productive Legislative Session, With More to Come
As the clock ticked down in the last week of Missouri’s regular legislative session, there was growing concern about what...
If at First You Don’t Succeed . . .
Try, try again, right? Unfortunately, that seems to be the motto developers are using with the Crestwood Plaza mall site....
Tides Turning Against TIF?
Public support is growing for efforts to protect local funding from bad tax-increment financing (TIF) deals, but will the elected...
TIF and the Pandemic, Part 1
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported recently on the struggles of county health departments in Missouri during the Covid pandemic. We...
Boonville TIF: A Slippery Slope
One of the first lessons I learned growing up in Boonville was to say what I mean and mean what...
Will Boonville Repeat the Mistakes of St. Louis and Kansas City?
A version of this commentary was published in the Columbia Tribune. Tax-increment financing (TIF) is Missouri’s bad idea that refuses...
Do Boonville and Cooper County Need $40 Million?
Developers have asked the City of Boonville for a tax-increment financing (TIF) subsidy to “help” them build a new subdivision...
New TIF is a Bad Deal for Boonville
A new tax-increment financing (TIF) package is being proposed to subsidize a new, 400-home development in Boonville. As best we...
What Would Daniel Boone (or His Sons) Think of TIF?
A new tax-increment financing (TIF) package is being proposed to subsidize a new, 400-home development in Boonville. As best we...
Five New Year’s Resolutions for Missouri Lawmakers
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Tribune. Missouri is considered one of the most “conservative” of the 50...
Fixing the “Delmar Divide” with a TIF?
Developers are asking for millions in tax subsidies for a redevelopment project with the hopes of fixing St. Louis’s “Delmar...
How Many Chances Does TIF Get?
There are so many problems with the City of St. Louis’s tax-increment financing (TIF) program that it would make your...
Back for More Handouts
Government handouts can be a slippery slope for some developers—once they get one, they just ask for more and more....
TIF for Tat Two
Back in December 2018, the Show-Me Institute published TIF-for-Tat: The Relationship Between Political Contributions and Tax-increment Financing Awards. A new nationwide...
Lawmakers Need to Start Budgeting Like Adults, Not Teenagers
It’s typical teenage behavior to run up a credit card bill and hope that someone else (like a parent or...
KC’s League of Women Voters Weigh in on TIF
The League of Women Voters of Kansas City/Jackson-Clay-Platte Counties recently released its study of tax-increment financing (TIF). In a radio...
Should All Cities Automatically Get Federal Help?
It isn’t surprising that mayors across the country are concerned about the impact a largely shuttered economy will have on...
