How Free-Market Is Your City?

State and Local Government |
By David Stokes | Read Time 1 min

This quiz is based on David Stokes’s multi-part series, A Free-Market Guide for Missouri Municipalities, which looks at how Missouri cities, towns, and villages organize themselves, tax residents, regulate land use, manage parks, handle sanitation and public health, and more. Answer a few questions about your own city’s policies to see how it stacks up, then read the full series for the reasoning and research behind each score.

David Stokes

About the Author

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield 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...

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