When City Leaders Aren’t Concerned, Taxpayers Should Be
In a recent story in The Kansas City Star about cost overruns for the downtown convention hotel, Steve Vockrodt wrote:...
Why Is RideKC Entering The Electric Scooter Market?
It was a pleasant surprise to see a new company enter the burgeoning electric scooter market in Kansas City. However,...
Fining Businesses for Convenience?
It was just this April that Missouri finally made its vehicle-for-hire regulations hospitable to transportation network companies (TNC) like Uber...
Was the Transfer Program Poorly Designed?
In the early 1970s the Ford Motor Company designed the Pinto. In addition to being extremely ugly, the Pinto was...
Righting the Wrongs of the Power & Light District
One of the reasons Kansas City is on the hook financially for so much on the Power & Light District is...
The Best Bargain I Ever Made
As first appearing in the September 30, 2013, print edition of The Weekly Standard: Though I never met the man,...
Is St. Louis the next Detroit? (Not in my view)
As first appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on August 16, 2013: When the St. Louis Cardinals played the Detroit...
At Least We Are Transparent About Our Cronyism In Missouri!
The Pew Center on the States has published a review of the transparency of state tax incentive programs. Some Missouri...
The Road To Prosperity Is Paved With . . . State Tax Incentives?
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon loves awarding tax incentives. So much so that in April, a road was named after him,...
Encouraging Job Creation in Claycomo, Mo. Louisville, Ky.
Contributors to Show-Me Daily have previously discussed the state subsidization of the Claycomo Ford plant, which secured $150 million in tax credits...
BILLIONS: Bad News for Michigan, Great News for Missouri
As a former Michigan resident and current Missourian, I am both dismayed and elated by the latest news from the...
Tax Credits: A Poor Strategy for Economic Development in Missouri
Not surprisingly, every person who has testified before the Missouri Tax Credit Commission during its regional meetings has spoken in...
Lost Entrepreneurial Initiative: An Unseen Cost of Auto Bailouts
Over at Cafe Hayek, Donald Boudreaux writes a letter to the editor that impugns an editorial in the Wall Street...
Missouri’s “Subsidies-for-Development Disease”
An editorial in the Kansas City Star argues that Missouri should stop training companies to expect subsidies. It describes the...
My Next Career Move: Professional Rent-Seeker
It may be time for a career change for me. Although I enjoy working at the Show-Me Institute very much,...
Regarding Missouri’s New Tax Credit Review Commission
Now that the $150 million incentive package for Ford has passed, it’s apparently time to reverse positions and talk tough...
Woe Is Ford! Boo Hoo!
From an editorial on Missourinet (link via John Combest): So if Ford develops an all-new vehicle, it’s investing about $3...
Pitting States Against Each Other: Ford’s Expensive Game
While it lobbied for $150 million in tax incentives from Missouri, Ford also courted Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois for...
“If You Can’t Be a Good Example, Then You’ll Just Have to Serve as a Horrible Warning”
The Post-Dispatch recently published a letter to the editor that applauded the passage of the $150 million Ford Claycomo tax...
Tax Credits: Often Not the Panacea Promised
As a casual reader, it’s hard not to get optimistic when reading the statements state officials make when awarding tax...
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