Bevy of Laws Come into Effect Today
It’s August 28th, and for policy nerds — and especially taxpayers — this is an important day. Today is the...
Missouri: The Show Me Smuggler State
I want to direct our readers to an amusing post on Missourinet by Bob Priddy about the positive consequences of...
“Government Should Be Operated Like a Business,” Part One of Two
In an editorial on Missourinet, Bob Priddy critiques the statement “Government should be operated like a business.” On a high...
Addressing the FairTax Critics … Again
Missourinet reports on the recent back and forth between supporters and detractors of a change in Missouri tax code. The...
Targeted Tax Credits Rear Their Ugly Head in the Missouri Legislature Again
As Steve Walsh explains in an article on Missourinet, this time the industry targeted for tax credits is data centers....
Shameless Self-Promotion
Steve Walsh on Missourinet linked to my recent op-ed about filmmaker tax credits in Missouri, which is a subject that...
Paved With Good Intentions?
Combest linked today to a Missourinet article about a decline in the state’s transportation funding: State Transportation Director Pete Rahn...
“Say It Ain’t So, Claire, Say It Ain’t So”
The headline of this Missourinet post really got me riled up, but the body of the report calmed me down...
Our World-Famous Health Care Study
The latest Show-Me Institute Policy Study — “The Prognosis for National Health Insurance: A Missouri Perspective” — is shaping up...
Taxes and Tickets
This Missourinet article (link via Combest) about a bill in the Missouri House, H.B. 683, tackles some valid issues within...
Don’t Blame Term Limits for Budget Problems
This is from a story on Missourinet: Some veteran state legislators worry that term limits have hurt the process of...
Show-Me Institute March (Media) Madness
Recently, the Show-Me Institute has received a striking amount of media attention: March 26, St. Louis Post-Dispatch — “Kick Anti-CWIP...
In Case You Missed Me on Missourinet
Here is the link to the story Missourinet did last week about my occupational licensing study. I appreciated Steve Walsh taking...
Calling All Third-Party Candidates
Missourinet has an interesting story about the Constitution Party in Missouri (link via Mr. Durrwachter-Combest). Because the party hit the...
Reason Ranks Our Roads
MoDOT is trumpeting — and deservedly so — the new state highway rankings released by the Reason Foundation in their...
Catastrophe Setup, Redux
I have previously blogged about the nefarious — but unintended — consequences of disaster relief. This seed has germinated into...
It Makes No Sense to Take Back Taxes From Stimulus Checks
There have been a few articles recently about state and local governments intercepting federal stimulus payments in order to take...
Personally, I’m a Sucker for Kittens
“Financial incentive offered for vets to treat cows, not kittens” That’s the headline from Missourinet, which brings us this detail:...
Ready, Fire, Aim!
Hits and misses from around Missouri newspapers, blogs, and elsewhere today: Education Week has a story on how the increased...
MO HealthNet could save money!
An article in MissouriNet today discusses the new MO HealthNet plan and the challenges it still faces: MO Health Net,...
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