The Costs of Remedial Education
A decade ago, education expert Dr. Jay P. Greene published a study for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in...
The Earnings Tax Is Still Bad, for All the Reasons We’ve Already Said
The Kansas City Star‘s website has a piece today by two Saint Louis University professors arguing against the repeal of...
Counties, Not Municipalities, Should Determine TIFs
The core of this issue has already been argued on the eastern side of the state. A 2007 change to...
Thanks, But No, Thanks, NCAA
Today’s KC Star is reporting on a hearing in Jefferson City in which sporting event promoters are attempting to get...
The Economic Case for Citizen Oversight of the Board of Police Commissioners
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. Many believe that Missouri, and Saint Louis in particular, has...
More Rent Seeking ? National Style
Rent seeking has been a major topic around here recently. I don’t need to provide links — if you’re reading...
The Lesson Applied to Film Production Incentives
In the beginning of Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt describes classic rent-seeking behavior: While certain public policies would in...
SMI Research Assistant John Payne on FOX 2 tonight at 10:00
Charles Jaco just finished taping an interview with Show-Me Institute research assistant John Payne, about the Metro mass transit system...
Great Article About the Land Tax in the Kansas City Star
This weekend, KC Star columnist E. Thomas McClanahan had a terrific article about the benefits of replacing earnings taxes with...
The Will of the People, Revisited
Today, I’m going to Jefferson City to testify on bills related to the initiative and referendum powers that the Missouri...
Is the Federal Stimulus Benefiting Missouri at the Expense of Wisconsin?
The editorial board at my hometown newspaper, the La Crosse Tribune, is critical of the way that federal stimulus funds...
Upcoming Liberty on the Rocks Events in Missouri
Wherever you are in located in Missouri, there is probably a chapter of Liberty on the Rocks near you! Saint Louis: tomorrow...
Smoke ’em While You Can
Although both Saint Louis City and County have recently passed a smoking ban (albeit a relatively mild one in the...
Feds Allocate $8 Million to High-Speed Rail; Missouri Gets a 0.39% Cut
Yesterday, the Obama administration pledged $8 billion in federal stimulus funds to develop a high-speed rail system in the United...
Good Story About Autism Legislation on Fox 4 KC
John Combest linked today to a very well-written story by Fox 4 in Kansas City. I commend them for asking...
Homeschoolers Ask for Charter Status
A group of homeschooling parents in Oregon have applied to form a charter school. They want to continue homeschooling, and...
Jackson Co. Hopes to KO TIF in KCMO
All right, so the title of this post is a bit misleading — I just wanted to get as many...
More About the Earnings Tax
The 1-percent earnings tax on Kansas City and St. Louis residents and workers has received a lot of press as...
Follow-Up on Work Opportunities for Felons
In a recent post, I commented on how I supported preventing felons from working as bail bondsman, but stated that...
A Land Tax Is Preferable to the Earnings Tax
Thomas McClanahan of the Kansas City Star explains in an editorial that Kansas City would benefit if it repealed the...
