Senate Bill 88 and Licensing Restrictions
Show-Me Institute researchers have been vocal proponents of reducing government barriers to workers, including hair braiders, park photographers, and many...
WATCH: The Red Vs Blue Myth and the Real Threat to American Stability
Recorded on December 1, 2022 at the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri Tony Woodlief is Executive...
Do Federal Regulations Impact Missourians?
Did you know that professional, scientific, and technical services (a broad category that includes legal, payroll, engineering, and advertising services...
Why Are Business Regulations Bad for Consumers?
No matter your view on regulations, there’s no denying that they come with a cost. Regulations increase operating costs for...
Missouri Tells You What to Do 94,000 Times
Ninety-four thousand is an absurdly large number. Can you imagine doing something 94,000 times? Well, Missouri tells us what we...
Are Policymakers in a Prisoners’ Dilemma with Economic Development Incentives?
In a recent paper, Michael D. Farren and Matthew D. Mitchell compare economic development incentive decisions by two states to the...
New Paper Suggests Kansas and Missouri on the Right Track with Truce
If you need a reminder regarding the negative consequences of economic development incentives, look no further than this paper published by the...
Missouri in the Middle on Regulations
According to a dataset from a new project released by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Missouri is ranked...
Missouri Should Follow Our Neighbor’s Lead and Review Occupational Licensing
Should you need to train for 175 days to be a skin care specialist? How about more than 700 days...
Is St. Louis Successful?
What makes a successful city? Recently, the Show-Me Institute, in collaboration with the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason...
Mercatus Study Affirms SMI Tax Credit Suggestion from 2012
Six years ago, Michael Rathbone and I coauthored a paper that looked at Missouri’s corporate income tax, assessed its problems...
The Show-Me State Charts a Course of Independence
When it comes to state-level policy, research suggests that Missouri respects the rights and responsibilities of the individual. That is...
What’s $65 Billion between Friends?
We teach kids the value of properly saving when they’re young, but when it comes to public pensions, retirement funds...
No Government Program is Perfect
I’ve spilled a lot of electronic ink over the minimum wage. It’s a bad policy that, though well intentioned, would...
Riding to the Hounds of Corporate Welfare
Oscar Wilde famously defined foxhunting as “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.” His quip aptly describes a sport...
New Year’s Resolutions for Missouri Lawmakers
As first appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Are you listening, Missouri lawmakers? This is the Ghost of Christmas Past....
Show-Me Now! Missouri businesses on the Dole
Policy Researcher Michael Rathbone notes that Missouri is one of the top 10 states… for corporate welfare. According to Veronique...
Missouri Is One of the Top States . . . in Corporate Welfare
Typically it’s a good thing to be ranked high. That’s certainly the case for college football and the Forbes 400....
Increasing the Health Care Supply to Meet Health Care Demand
Robert Graboyes is a senior research fellow for the Mercatus Center. Later this month Dr. Graboyes will release a report...
Kudos to Missouri Senate for Blocking Health Exchange
Earlier this year, the Missouri Senate approved a measure blocking Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s ability to create a health insurance...
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