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...
Mizzou Students March in Support of Poverty, Unemployment, and Extreme Energy Costs
A group of idealistic young whippersnappers marched in Columbia to protest the campus’ use — and, by extension, the entire...
Scholarship Cuts for Private University Students Favor Institutions, not Students
Meanwhile, the General Assembly, through House Bill 1812 and Senate Bill 784, is focused on reform of the...
The Earnings Tax Is Still Bad, for All the Reasons We’ve Already Said
The Kansas City Star‘s website has a piece today by two Saint Louis University professors arguing against the repeal of...
Great Article About the Land Tax in the Kansas City Star
This weekend, KC Star columnist E. Thomas McClanahan had a terrific article about the benefits of replacing earnings taxes with...
More Support for Sentencing Reform
Writing in the Missouri Record, Mizzou political science professor David Webber highlights some of the hard numbers behind Missouri Chief...
The Missouri Budget Project Is Wrong
When you keep repeating an error that others have corrected for you and explained to you multiple times why it...
How a Sales Tax System Could Replace the State Income Tax
Missouri’s General Assembly is considering a resolution that would allow Missourians to vote on a constitutional amendment that would eliminate...
Pick Your Poison: Income Tax or Sales Tax
I attended the Show-Me Institute’s forum on Missouri’s tax system in Columbia yesterday, which featured a spirited debate about the...
Missouri Can Be Proud of Its High-Speed Rail Allocation
Here are some things to be happy about! Missouri ranks last among the 50 states in the number of professions...
Changes to College Funding System Could Increase Efficiency, Transparency
In the realm of higher education funding, Missouri can do better than the system it currently has in place,...
Offering Incentives for Early High School Graduation Would Save Taxpayer Money
A simple policy change could help gifted students pay for college, use school resources more efficiently, shrink overcrowded classrooms,...
Quick Clarification on Quote in the Columbia Maneater
I was quoted this morning in the University of Missouri–Columbia’s student newspaper, The Maneater, as part of a story about...
Missouri Suffers From the Saint Louis and Kansas City Earnings Taxes
The Saint Louis and Kansas City earnings taxes, 1-percent income taxes imposed on those living or working within city limits,...
What Does the State Income Tax Cost Missourians?
The recession has dominated economic news of late. As with any downturn, there is an opportunity now to reevaluate the...
What Does the Earnings Tax Cost Saint Louis and Kansas City?
Missouri’s two largest cities are shrinking relative to the rest of the United States. The city of Saint Louis is...
Do We Need a Competitive Society or a Cooperative Society?
What is more worthwhile, playing a sport to win as part of a competition or just playing it for fun,...
Who’s Afraid of the Defined Contribution Plan?
The city of Springfield can’t keep going with the police and fire pension system it has in place. The unfunded...
Tax Cuts Provide Better Stimulus Than Government Spending
It would have been impossible to predict in advance how the Missouri General Assembly finally decided to distribute the stimulus...
Choice Allows Schools to Better Meet Individual Student Needs
Public education didn’t work for me. The schools I attended were “great,” or so I’m told. My elementary and middle...
