Wednesday, September 23, 2026

The Lawyer's Gambit

 

September 23, 2026

 

Is Bob Onder playing tax-credit chess?

 

The St. Louis lawyer wants $1.5 billion in tax credits from a town whose median household income is $47,524.

 

Maybe that’s his opening bid. After being turned down, he sweetened the pot by offering a drop in the bucket in the form of a $7.5 million donation to a non-profit (connected, coincidentally, to a town council member).

 

Maybe he’s hoping to keep bargaining until he can whittle the figure to a mere $100 million or so.

 

 

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