By Joseph Haslag and Alex Schulte The Saint Louis and Kansas City earnings taxes, 1-percent income taxes imposed on those living or working within city limits, have consequences. People have ways of avoiding these taxes, and the single easiest way is through their mobility. Put another way, people choose where to work and what businesses […]

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It was recently reported that Missouri’s unemployment rate has hit a 21-year high of 9.3%. Despite this bleak news, Governor Nixon has NO jobs proposal to get this state back on track. Either he is practicing a radical form of laissez-faire economics, or he is asleep at the wheel at a time when more and […]

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Bill O’Reilly, of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. was touting last night on his TV show that TARP bailout firm Goldman Sachs had paid no corporate income taxes last year. Well, that’s not quite correct according to Bloomberg News: “Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which got $10 billion and debt guarantees from the U.S. […]

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As talk floats around Washington D.C. of a second “borrow and print” stimulus package, our new Missouri Matters poll asks our readers if they favor a second (or third depending on your perspective) stimulus package. Not to skew the results of course, but here’s an excerpt from a stimulus “success story” in yesterday’s St. Louis […]

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No, not the fraud Koster perpetrated on the voters last year. The Attorney General is in Washington today to testify on the rampant fraud going on in the burgeoning mortgage and debt repair industry. There is one fraud that we would like to see the AG and Nixon crony and “Go to Guy” Chuck Hatfield […]

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No surprise here that former minority leader  – and now uber lobbyist – Dick Gephardt is schilling for a drug company in the current health care “debate.” And we use the term “debate” loosely here since Republicans are being systematically shut out of the process of – as Gephardt said recently  ” [the] incremental dismantling […]

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Remember all those green jobs (the ones with no details) that the president keeps talking about that will take the place of all those manufacturing jobs we keep losing every month? Well The St. Louis Business Journal today gives us a few details as to what types of jobs these will be: “The U.S. Conference […]

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Democrats Focused on “Bringing About the Incremental Dismantling of the Current [Healthcare] System.” – Dick Gephardt Politics does indeed bring about strange bedfellows. As brand new Democrat Arlen Spector tries to demonstrate to his new party that he’s one of them now, Spector is ponying up with former minority leader and now (big time) corporate […]

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As we write this – and the president prepares to sell his healthcare plan to the nation’s doctors – the stock market is down over 200 points. Any correlation? Related: Rasmussen: 41% Favor Public Sector Health Care Option, 41% Disagree “Sixty-three percent (63%) say it’s likely that a government insurance company would lose money and […]

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While the President’s personal popularity remains relatively high, (no pun intended) there is growing evidence that the American people are starting to soundly reject the president’s foreign and economic policies. From Rasmussen Reports: “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues, while 39% trust […]

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