A Moonshot of Mistakes: Missouri’s Missing Million
When the United States put a man on the moon in 1969, the state of Missouri was the 13th largest...
Taxes: Hitting Some Missouri Businesses Harder than Others?
In their essay, “Taxing Business in Missouri,” Professors Rik Hafer, Ph.D., and Howard Wall, Ph.D., review the research of the...
Essay: Education, Income, and Social Behavior Across Missouri
You wouldn’t expect a lot of pushback if you claimed that there is a positive relationship between income and level...
Show-Me Institute Presents: Comparing Income Tax Liability Across States: Where Does Missouri Rank?
There has been a lot of back and forth regarding whether Missouri is a low-tax state. The truth depends on...
Taxes Are Still Too High for Missouri
In his 2014 state of the state address, Governor Jay Nixon bragged that “Missouri’s a low-tax state—sixth lowest in the...
Show-Me Now! Missouri’s Economy is Lagging Behind
Show-Me Institute Research Fellow Rik Hafer, Ph.D., discusses how Missouri’s economy has performed since 2000 relative to its neighbors and...
Show-Me Institute Presents: Missouri’s Economic Record In The 21st Century
During good times and bad, Missouri is failing to keep up economically with its neighbors. In the Show-Me Institute’s new...
Obamacare: Less Choice, Higher Taxes, Slower Economic Growth
As first appearing in the STL Beacon on September 30, 2013: The time for enrolling in health exchanges is now...
In Case There Were Any Doubts About The ‘Growth Corridor’ We’re In, Here’s Another Data Point
Today, Show-Me Institute Research Fellow Rik Hafer wrote in the St. Louis Beacon about a recent CNBC business survey and how...
Lesson From the Election: Examine Claims on Both Sides of Tax Issues
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. In the recent election, a surprising number of tax issues were...
Health Care Reform Another Step in Decline of Our Economic Freedom
The passage and signing of the president’s massive health care reform legislation are the latest chapters in the socialization of...
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...
Don’t Overreact to Bumps in the Economic Recovery
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. Determining when business cycles start and end is a tricky call....
Will Future Health Care Look Like Canada’s or Britain’s?
A shorter version of this article first appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. Commentators in the current health care...
What Will Future Health Care Look Like?
Today, Rik Hafer, chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville and research fellow with the...
Tariffs Punish Consumers, but Remain Politically Popular
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. With all the talk about polarizing politics and the fracturing...
Giving Insurers More Room to Operate Would Increase Beneficial Competition
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. In this limited space, it is impossible to deal with...
The “Fair Tax” Rally In Columbia
That twittering blogger himself, Mr. Combest, linked to a number of articles about the “Fair Tax” rally in Columbia this...
Missouri Would Be Better Off Without an Income Tax
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. The Missouri House recently took an ambitious step toward improving the...
