Regarding Missouri’s New Tax Credit Review Commission
Now that the $150 million incentive package for Ford has passed, it’s apparently time to reverse positions and talk tough...
Grant’s Farm a National Park?
An article in the Post-Dispatch reports that the National Park Service is considering converting the St. Louis treasure that is...
Snapshots Vs. Trends in School Testing
Saint Louis’s Paideia Academy, a charter school, is set to close its doors following a recent defeat in a court...
Developer Should Bear Risk of Failure
I was pleased to see that the Post-Dispatch ran a letter to the editor today that I wrote in response...
More on MoDOT and Local Control of Roads
Just yesterday, I wrote about the loathsome move by the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny city of Charlack to install speed cameras on I-170 in St....
Missouri’s Development Tax Credits Cost Too Much, Deliver Too Little
In a recent Post-Dispatch op-ed (“Tax credits work for Missouri,” June 17), Donald Rosemann argues that tax credits create jobs...
Emphasizing Homeownership Is Questionable Policy
According to a Post-Dispatch article, the housing market in Missouri is very weak, to the surprise of probably no one. Housing...
Cut Spending or Raise Taxes?
The state government is facing a dilemma over whether to cut spending or raise taxes because of a constitutional requirement...
Trade Codes and Rent Seeking Are Hot in Missouri Tonight
St. Louis County, the city of St. Louis, and Kansas City are all seeing examples of preferred legislation for favored...
Cut the Nonsense
Bertrand Russell was right about one thing, “There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed...
If Water Rates Rise, You Should Privatize!
The title of this blog entry should be spoken as if you were Johnny Cochran (R.I.P.). The Post-Dispatch is reporting...
Are Missourians Ready for Toll Roads?
Yesterday, Combest linked to a story in the Post-Dispatch about a talk that former MoDOT director Pete Rahn gave in...
Tax Credits Are an Undesirable Strategy for Missouri
There was some classic rent-seeking behavior in the editorial section of the Post-Dispatch yesterday: An architect touts historic preservation tax...
Fueling the Fire
I guess the news has finally reached Washington. In a recent post on the Political Fix blog, Bill Lambrecht pointed...
SLU Economics Professors Misstate Findings of Earnings Tax Paper
In a recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch commentary (“Don’t blame the earnings tax,” May 6), Drs. Lisa Gladson and Jack Strauss...
Despite Government’s Encouragement, Rate of Homeownership Remains Steady
The rate of homeownership has not increased to the extent that the author implies in this Post-Dispatch article: After being...
Rules Too Cool for the Pools
Today’s Post-Dispatch has a big story on pool safety and regulation in the St. Louis area. I’ll stipulate right off...
Opportunities to Privatize Government Fleet Management
Sunday’s Post-Dispatch had an excellent story about the use of taxpayer-funded cars for public officials. In past decades, when government employees...
The Right to Have a Peaceful Life in a Quiet Subdivision
Lewis Greenberg's yard art. Photo from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch A Ballwin-area retired art teacher was sentenced to jail time...
A Minor Point About Minimum Wage
The first job I ever got paid for was probably mowing lawns in the ’90s when I was a teen....
