A Big Win for Taxpayers in Maryland Heights
As far as I know, the biggest defeat of a tax increment financing (TIF) package or similar tax subsidy (and,...
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Tax Incentive Reforms Would Benefit Kansas City
A version of this commentary appeared in the Kansas City Star. Ulysses S. Grant was known to say that in...
Senate Bill 108 and Tax-Increment Finance Reform
On Monday, April 29, Show-Me Institute Director of Municipal Policy Patrick Tuohey will submit testimony to the Missouri House Downsizing...
Higher Taxes = Less Innovation
When researchers at the Show-Me Institute argue that high tax burdens encourage people to leave Kansas City and St. Louis,...
Taxpayer Largesse Unnecessary, Wasteful in U City Development
University City officials seem far too eager to give away taxpayer dollars to developers who are hardly in need of...
Taxes for Thee, But Not For Me
A recent Kansas City Star story on the proposed Kansas City general obligation bonds, (GO Bonds) contained the following: This...
Funding the Foundry: Why Are Taxpayers Continually on the Hook?
When St. Louis public schools are underperforming and the water department is trying to get lead out of the water,...
Taxpayers’ Subsidy Skepticism Is Warranted
The Kansas City Star published a piece last week about subsidized development and its opposition in the region. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the...
Taxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Subsidize Parking in Upscale Central West End Redevelopment
Last week the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Commission voted to approve Koman Group’s $4.5 million TIF proposal for 32 N....
Saint Louis Property Taxes, Part 3: The Tax Breaks
In my previous two posts on Saint Louis City’s real property tax base, I discussed how various government bodies and...
How Will the Convention Hotel Help Taxpayers?
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that the planned convention hotel in Kansas City does increase convention business. How...
The Convention Hotel’s Tax Breaks and Gimmes
Reviewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the city of Kansas City and the developers who want to build a...
Diverting City Tax Dollars To Subsidize The Loop Trolley
Earlier this week, a U.S. District Court dismissed a lawsuit against the Loop Trolley Transportation Development District (TDD), clearing the...
Clayton Seeks Four-Leaf Clover Of Tax Increases
As first appearing in the St. Louis Business Journal: Like a mischievous Leprechaun sporting a four-leaf clover, the city of...
Show-Me Minute: Tax Subsidies
The Show-Me Minute is a short radio advertisement to inform listeners about the work of the Show-Me Institute in a...
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...
The Tax Subsidy That Wasn’t
In the 1990s, private developers partnered with members of the Olivette City Council to endorse the implementation of a $38...
Love Is Hate, War Is Peace, General Tax Cuts Are Corporate Welfare
It seems the St. Louis Post-Dispatch thinks business tax cuts amount to corporate welfare. That is NOT corporate welfare. Corporate...
Two Thumbs Down on the So-Called ‘Arch Tax’
Voters in Saint Louis City and County will go to the polls on Tuesday, April 2 to decide the fate...
Tax Subsidies For The Wealthy
Tax Increment Financing is one of the most common forms of local government corporate welfare. Here in Saint Louis, developers...
