Kansas City’s Power And Flight District
Think voters in Kansas City will get a say on whether the city issues billions in bonds to build a...
Missouri Is 31st For Business Friendliness In CEO Survey
Earlier this week, Chief Executive magazine issued its annual “Best & Worst States for Business” survey, which asked business leaders...
Small Business Friendliness Survey: Kansas Gets ‘A,’ Missouri Gets ‘C,’ Illinois Gets ‘D’
The usual suspects are out in full force with the Parade of Economic Horribles they say would come from Missouri enacting Kansas-style...
Another Step Closer
In the race to keep up with Kansas, Missouri has cleared one more hurdle in enacting serious tax reform. The...
One Step Closer
Facing a potential stampede of businesses heading across our western border, the Missouri Senate came one step closer to lassoing...
The Better Angels Of Our Tax Code
As a free-market proponent, I often talk of the wonders of entrepreneurship. Yet, when Missouri tries to encourage entrepreneurship, it...
Taxes Do Harm Growth
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in its Sat., Feb. 2, 2013, editorial, attacked Rex Sinquefield, the Show-Me Institute, legislators, and anyone...
VIDEO: Talking Kansas City Border War Economics on KCPT
I was on Kansas City Public Television’s “Kansas City Week in Review” last week to discuss the impact of Kansas’...
Not All Ideas Are Bad – Some Are Actually Good
You might think that all I do is complain about bad ideas coming out of Jefferson City. For the most...
The Cost Of Ignoring Opportunity Cost
Few intellectuals have articulated the virtues of the free economy as lucidly and persuasively as 19th century French economist Frédéric Bastiat....
Not Nebraska, Too
When thinking of Nebraska, what immediately comes to mind? Some people would say football and some would say corn(husking). Cardinals...
Lowering the Boom: Louisiana Looks to End Its Corporate and Personal Income Taxes
Big news breaking in the Big Easy. Last night, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced that he will pursue tax reform...
A Little Less Conversation
With the new Missouri legislative session about to begin, the time for lawmakers just talking about tax reform is going...
A Very Special Update
Sometimes I feel like I am Jimmy Stewart in the movie “Rear Window.” I am stuck watching my neighbors do...
Tax Rates DO Matter
Driving to work today, I was listening to 101Espn (the station I listen to when I am not listening to...
Another Missouri Company Leaving for Kansas, Citing, in Part, Kansas City’s Earnings Tax
Tax. Policy. Matters. We make this point all the time, but if skeptics needed another real world example to hammer...
Soon-To-Be Kansan Company Gets $5 Million to Move A Half Mile
Earlier this year I told you the story of Teva Neuroscience, which announced that it would be moving fewer than...
Rex Sinquefield on The McGraw Show
In an hour-long interview with host McGraw Milhaven on the Big 550 KTRS, Show-Me President Rex Sinquefield spelled out the...
VIDEO: The New York Times Covers the Kansas City Border War
This weekend, The New York Times kicked off a three-part investigative series titled “The United States of Subsidies.” The series...
What Missouri Could Learn From Its Deer Hunters
Hunting season is in full swing, and for many Missourians it’s a family affair. As one hunter put it in...
