A Conversation with SLU Professor Douglas Rush About Aerotropolis

Corporate Welfare | August 31, 2011

By Audrey Spalding | Read Time 1 minute

In this video, SLU Professor Douglas Rush talks about an op-ed he wrote for the St. Louis-Post Dispatch that critized creating $360 million in tax credits. Rush explains that he thinks tax credits for building warehouses could come at the expense of state funding for higher education. Furthermore, he says he thinks that higher education is a better investment than construction subsidies.

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Audrey Spalding

Audrey Spalding Audrey Spalding graduated in 2009 from the University of MissouriColumbia with dual degrees in journalism and economics. She became fascinated with local government issues while working as an education reporter at the Columbia Missourian, and realized the importance of holding elected officials accountable. Her coverage of the Columbia Public School District's tax levy increase election won a Hearst Journalism Award. Before joining the Show-Me Institute, Audrey worked for the institute as a research intern for a year, and during that time filed more than 500 requests for public information. She is originally from Michigan.

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