Repeal of City Earnings Taxes Leaves No Good Options

Click here to read the first Policy Pulse edition, a new feature on the Missouri Budget Project web site with short articles about critical issues of the day. 

In this article, learn more about a push to eliminate the Kansas City and St. Louis earnings taxes that is occurring in Missouri. The push is driving a new theoretical debate on the value of earnings taxes, but what has not drawn as much scrutiny is the single most critical issue to consider: how the lost city revenue would be replaced.