MOScout Sunday6: Trucks and roads – China – Tax Credits – Medicare - WFH and more…

1. GOP policies popular with rural USA. Dems need to talk about rural hospitals and rural broadband.

Source: Morning Consult.

2. Medicare driving healthcare’s higher share of GDP.

Source: Congressional Budget Office.

3. More miles being driven by trucks.

Source: Wall Street Journal.

4. Trucks do more damage to roads.

Source: Wall Street Journal.

5. MO has lots of “crumbling bridges.”

Source: Axios.

6 & 7. Coming generational war in China? Source: Marco Polo.

8. Tax credit trends in Missouri.  Source for these graphs are the recent audit from the Auditor’s Office.  Missouri has $2.8 billion in tax credit liabilities…

9. But tax credits redemptions, as a percentage of general revenue, are down significantly.

10. And the mix is changing.  Missouri Works and Historic Preservation have grown in recent years.

11. Work from home preference partisan divide?

Source: Nick Bloom.