Hat tip: showmeinstitute The Missouri Department of Transportation, MODOT, is looking into ways of funding necessary maintenance on the main east-to-west highway across Missouri — Interstate 70. One funding option is to raise the gas tax state-wide. An alternative proposal from MODOT is to institute a toll on the highway. [...]

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Who do you think would have more credibility at creating jobs? A former community organizer who has never had a private sector job in his life and who spent four years in the Illinois state senate and two years in the US Senate, or, a businessman who heads a firm with 30,000 employees in 3,000 locations in 43 states and 13 countries?

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Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Audrey Spalding describes how even though the $360 million Aerotropolis tax credit package has been trimmed by $300 million, that same funding for warehouse development may ultimately come about anyway from other, existing tax credit programs.

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Hat tip:showmeinstitute St. Louis University assistant professor Doug Rush calls proponents of Aerotropolis the “Cargo Cult”. Here’s why he thinks it’s a misguided idea.

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Hat tip:showmeinstitute The city of Saint Louis just declared as “blighted” the plot of land on which the eye-catching South Grand Del Taco resides. The business still runs 24/7 and gets customers, even in spite of the nearby bridge closing. Why would the city blight an intact and functioning business? Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Audrey [...]

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Hat tip:showmeinstitute Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst David Stokes weighs in on red light cameras in Saint Louis — the recent ruling that found such cameras illegal in Saint Louis, and the implications of the ruling for the city payroll tax.

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