Patrick Tuohey works with taxpayers, media, and policymakers to foster understanding of the consequencessometimes unintendedof policies regarding economic development, taxation, education, and transportation.His paper on tax increment financing in Kansas City, Urban Neglect: Kansas Citys Misuse of Tax Increment Financing was published in the Urban Leagues 2015 State of Black Kansas City. It has spurred parents and activists to oppose TIF projects where they are not needed and was a contributing factor in the KCPT documentary, Our Divided City about crime, urban blight, and public policy in Kansas City. Patrick is a regular panelist on Kansas City Public Televisions Ruckus and appears on television and radio across Missouri.Before joining the Show-Me Institute, Patrick operated his own corporate market research company in Maryland and then relocated to Kansas City in 2005. He previously served as an aide to U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) in Washington, DC, and as director of communications for Frank Luntzs polling shop, representing the firm and its research to members of the U.S. Senate and House as well as regularly attending congressional staff meetings.He has developed research methodologies for clients such as Monsanto, Anheuser-Busch, the National Sheriffs Association, the Christian Coalition, the Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse, ABC News, and NBC News. Patrick received a bachelors degree from Boston College in 1993.
