Here's an important financial analysis of local government leading sputtering economies that are slowly but surely breaking down . . .
Show-Me Institute: Retooling Missouri's Economic Engines
Money line . . .
"If Kansas City and St. Louis are the economic engines of Missouri, they are either stuck in neutral or reverse. No state legislature should stand by idly while so much economic opportunity is wasted. Reformers in Jefferson City would do a great deal to improve things if they reined in cities’ abilities to levy taxes, reformed economic development incentives, and greatly increased transparency at every level. Cities can be a great economic engines, but not without occasional tune-ups."
Check the post for more facts on economic decline on both sides of I-70.
You decide . . .
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