Show-Me Pocket Change

Missourinet’s Steve Walsh talked with Art Laffer last week, and Laffer had this to say about Missouri’s competitiveness:

“You want to make output and employment and production as attractive as possible,” Laffer told me. “You are in competition with the rest of the nation, whether you like it or not, and if a business locates itself in Missouri as opposed to Kansas or Ohio, you get the benefits of it and citizens of Missouri get the benefits of it. What you should do is make sure you have a tax structure and a spending structure that really makes people attracted to your state.”