People respond to prices, incentives, and mandates. We all know that, although many people wish it were not so. Today’s Joplin Globe has an enlightening article on how one such business has responded in a very rational way to incentives, and left Missouri for Kansas. Thanks to Combest for the link, and my point here is not to call for further tort reform. Missouri passed some great, much-needed changes in 2005, and they need time to work themselves out. Just as doctors on the west side of the state may favor Kansas over Missouri, doctors on the east side favor Missouri over Illinois. I understand that on the south side doctors perfer to practice in the middle of Table Rock Lake so they can be in either Missouri or Arkansas depending on the precise situation.
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David Stokes
David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.
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