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The Price of Starting a Business in St. Louis
Would you want to open a restaurant in a city that requires 35 steps, multiple licenses, and $3,750 in fees just to get started? That’s what researchers from the Institute for Justice found it takes to open a restaurant in St. Louis. Does that sound like an inviting business environment to you? The Institute for Justice recently released a report that analyzes the barriers to business in cities across the country. The authors used model businesses to demonstrate how difficult it would be to open a restaurant, bookstore, food truck, barbershop, and home-based tutoring business in St. Louis and other cities. The report examines three aspects of the regulatory process to evaluate the cities: cost, delays, and complexity. Here’s how St. Louis fared for each:
Cost: St. Louis doesn’t do well here because of the city’s fee structure. The city uses a graduated fee system based on the number of employees, so fees can become extremely expensive as businesses grow.
Delays: This report found that a general lack of clarity (and especially a lack of information online) leads to many delays and makes the process more complicated than it seems.
Complexity: The process of starting a business in St. Louis can be very complex, sometimes requiring dozens of steps, numerous forms, and multiple business licenses.
Can we really say that St. Louis has an inviting business environment when the city fares so poorly in all three aspects?
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Why Sports Betting Never Made It To Gov. Parson’s Desk This Session
It’s legal in nearly all of Missouri’s surrounding states to place a wager on college and professional sports teams, but the chips are stacked against the Show Me State. The odds of legalizing sports betting at the beginning of the session in January were high, but once May rolled around, Missourians placing bets on their favorite sports teams became a long shot. Some of it is due to Senate Republicans not agreeing. Some are already working on a plan for next year. “You’re going to have unfinished business,” Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) said. “You don’t get to do 15 big things in a year. It’s just never going to be that way.” Legally betting on the Kansas City Chiefs or the St. Louis Cardinals has been put on hold for another year in Missouri. Back in March, the House passed legislation to allow anyone 21 and older to legally place wagers on colleges and professional sports teams online or at side sports venues and casinos.
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Early Primary Results: Repub Turnout Up 38%; Dem Turnout Up 1%
We now have 13 states that have concluded their primaries, and one very clear trend: this year's electorate is much more Republican than the last midterm election. John Couvillon of JMC Analytics has compiled the numbers. He reports: "Overall turnout up 21% (and 2018 was a high turnout year); democrat turnout +1%, republican turnout +38%. The Republican % of the vote went from 54 to 62% of the electorate." If anything like this trend continues through November this will be the biggest red wave election in modern times. But a lot can change in six months.
Source Unleash Prosperity Hotline
Percentage Change In Population Of U.S. Cities With More Than 50k People
America's top 15 cities by percentage growth last year were clustered in Arizona, Texas and Florida, with a few in Idaho and one in Tennessee. Why it matters: The U.S. is spreading out, heading South and West and creating new boomtowns, tech hubs and rising power centers. A Census Bureau release last week showed Georgetown, Texas, had the most growth from July 2020 to July 2021 — 10.5%, a rate that would double the population in less than seven years. See interactive version of the map here.
Source: Axios
The 100 Insider: “Growth is a marker for good governing. This is what we hope to see in Missouri. We hope our governing authorities make great policy for families and businesses so that we see more economic growth, opportunity for all…etc. ” Jim Lembke
Updated Johns Hopkins Study on Lockdowns Debunks the Fact Checkers
Last January, the John Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise published a working paper which showed clearly how lockdowns across the world did not affect Covid-19 mortality at all. The paper, is written by economists Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung and Steve H. Hanke, now appearing in its final version, titled A literature review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on Covid-19 mortality II.
“The use of lockdowns is a unique feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have not been used to such a large extent during any of the pandemics of the past century. However, lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating effects. They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, loss of life quality, and the undermining of liberal democracy. These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are little to none. “Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: until future research based on credible empirical evidence can prove that lockdowns have large and significant reductions in mortality, lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.”
See full article here.
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