New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who makes his livin’ off of the people’s taxes, held a press conference to bemoan the $2.3 billion drop in state income tax revenue in December and January alone. Cuomo suggested that this was the result of the 2017 tax reform bill which reduced the amount of state taxes one can deduct from one’s federal tax burden. As a result, states with high income taxes, like New York and California, fear that their wealthy residents will flee to lower tax states like Florida. As Steve Miller might say,

They got the money, hey, you know they got away
They headed down south and they’re still running today
Singin’ go on take the money and run

This should serve as an important reminder to public officials at every level, including the Missouri General Assembly and policymakers in St. Louis and Kansas City, that people do make choices based on tax burden. The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that 53 percent of Californians want to leave the state in part due to the high cost of living, impacted by high income taxes.

As we’ve noted numerous times before, taxes in Missouri are too high. If Missouri wants to attract residents, employers, innovators—or anyone—policymakers must be better stewards of taxpayer dollars and provide basic services at the lowest possible cost.

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The study, issued by the government of the District of Columbia in December 2017, “aims to calculate the combined state and local tax burdens that would apply to a hypothetical family at five different income levels living in D.C. as well as the largest city in each state.” Kansas City is included and St. Louis is not, and neither are some cities that we’ve identified as peers. But the data are valuable nonetheless.

The estimated tax burden for a family earning $50,000 in Kansas City—the median income is $47,000—is $5,444. That’s 10.9 percent of income and includes income, property, sales, and auto taxes. This places us 8th in the country, ahead of places well-known as expensive such as Boston, New York, Portland, Seattle, Denver, and Los Angeles.

Dave Helling of The Kansas City Star has pointed out that taxes in Kansas City are also regressive. This report supports that conclusion regarding auto sales taxes, stating that “Providence, Rhode Island; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Kansas City, Missouri are the cities with the highest automobile tax burdens across all income levels.” Combined with all other taxes, a Kansas City family earning $25,000 pays a combined tax burden of 12.6 percent; 8th highest of the cities measured. For a family earning $100,000, the burden is lower at 11.2 percent, placing us 12th.

What’s worse, the sales tax estimates are low for Kansas City. On page 39, the study lists Kansas City’s sales tax rate to be 8.475 percent, but anyone living here knows it goes much higher due to the proliferation of special taxing districts across the city.

Individuals can determine for themselves if City Hall is providing a return worthy of the investment, but the debate over whether taxes are high is settled. Kansas City is a high-tax city. Our taxes are regressive, too, but they are certainly high.

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That’s why news broken by Samantha Liss at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch should be very welcome to patients in Missouri and elsewhere, as it appears the market for at least some pharmacy services is about to grow:

Throughout the past year, and without much fanfare, Amazon.com Inc. has gained approval to become a wholesale distributor from a number of state pharmaceutical boards, according to a review of public records….

According to a review of records by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Amazon has received approval for wholesale pharmacy licenses in at least 12 states, including Nevada, Arizona, North Dakota, Louisiana, Alabama, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, Idaho, New Hampshire, Oregon and Tennessee.

An application is currently pending in the state of Maine.

An Amazon spokesperson told the Post-Dispatch via email that the company does not comment on “rumors and speculation.”

It’s a little complicated, but one of the big questions surrounding the Post-Dispatch report is the ultimate aim of the Amazon filings—that is, whether Amazon wants to open up a pharmacy benefits management business only, or whether a soup to nuts model is also in the tech giant’s future. Does Amazon want to be Express Scripts? Does it want to be Walgreens? Or does it want to be both? I would welcome all of the above, actually, and I suspect millions of Amazon customers would feel likewise.

And despite the failure of our Federal representatives to actually do what they said and repeal Obamacare, there is still reason to be optimistic about the trajectory of care in this country. Along with the reform initiatives above, tech innovations like 3D printing of prosthetics, and much more, the potential entry of Amazon into the pharmaceutical space reiterates that the future of health care as some government product remains anything but assured. After all, people are markets, and markets are powerful things.

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Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more?

More than 40 years after that song was released, the state of Connecticut is learning a lesson from  policies that heavily tax the rich. According to the Associated Press:

New figures released last week show tax revenue from the state’s top 100 highest-paying taxpayers declined 45 percent from 2015 to 2016. The drop adds up to a $200 million revenue loss for the state…

This latest drop in tax revenues paid by the wealthy, a problem for the past several years, has exacerbated Connecticut’s current budget woes. The projected deficit for the new fiscal year beginning July 1 has now jumped from about $1.7 billion to $2.3 billion, while the deficit predicted for the second year of the state’s two-year budget is now about $2.7 billion. The state’s main spending account, the general fund, is roughly about $18 billion annually.

As the headquarters of several hedge funds, Connecticut is especially sensitive to changes in that industry. Recent fund failures have meant that investors have sought to protect themselves from risk, meaning less profit and a double whammy for the Nutmeg State.

The commissioner for the state’s Department of Revenue Services conceded to the AP that “part of revenue decline can also be attributed to ‘a handful’ of wealthy individuals who moved to more tax-friendly states.” Imagine that. If your state levies higher taxes on the wealthy than other states do, the wealthy leave. The AP story also cites a similar example in New Jersey last year.

Soak-the-rich tax policies may seem great on bumper stickers and in song lyrics, but they are no way to run an economy. As we have written, in Missouri and elsewhere governments must compete against one another. Rather than penalize producers to cover for profligate spending, government should only tax what is needed to provide basic services effectively and efficiently.

To their credit, even Ten Years After wasn’t convinced of the merits of their proposal, ending with the refrain,

I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to do
So I’ll leave it up to you

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Far from it. Of the 77 U.S. cities that KPMG ranked (which was not exhaustive of all major metros), Saint Louis ranked 45th and Kansas City ranked 46th. Among the cities cheaper than Saint Louis (and Kansas City) are regional competitors like Nashville, Omaha, Cincinnati, Memphis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oklahoma City, to name a few. Worse yet, Saint Louis was more expensive than all 18 Southeastern cities KPMG looked at, from Atlanta to New Orleans.

So where did the Post-Dispatch get a top ten ranking for Saint Louis? If we only consider regions with populations greater than two million (of which KPMG ranked 31), Saint Louis is the 9th cheapest. I will leave it to the readers of this blog to decide if Saint Louis should pat itself on back for being cheaper than New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, when it has higher costs for businesses than Nashville, Memphis, and just about every other regional competitor. But if we do decide to use population as criteria, it seems more justified to look at metros with populations similar to those of Saint Louis and Kansas City (between two and three million residents). When we do that, Saint Louis is 7th and Kansas City is 8th out of 14 such cities. That seems awfully middling.

That’s probably why, if one reads the study that the Post-Dispatch reports on, they’ll find that it does not claim that Saint Louis is among the most competitive cities in the country. KPMG didn’t even break down cities by population in the study, choosing instead to do so by region.  The Post-Dispatch story (while citing the study) is actually based on an ancillary KPMG press release, which lauds Cincinnati, and is careful to note context.

Titling an article “St. Louis among most cost-competitive cities for business, report says” when the report in question says no such thing is a questionable decision for a newspaper of record. But this is not just a problem with the headline. The article itself is equally misleading, and it was not a headline writer who placed this story front and center on the Post-Dispatch’s website less than a week before a vote on multiple tax issues (where the city’s business climate is an issue). 

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Last week, the Jefferson City News Tribune reported on Missouri’s recently released ACT scores. The 2014–2015 school year was the first year in which every 11th-grader in Missouri was required to take the test, which in theory predicts how well a student will do in college. The Tribune reported that Missouri increased its average score from 21.6 to 21.7, and that Missouri students outscored national averages in every subject area.

But before we pop the champagne bottle, let’s talk about the ACT.

The ACT is an imperfect tool for comparing students from different states. The test is more popular in some states than in others, so participation rates vary. Only thirteen states had 100 percent participation, and 59 percent of students participated nationally. Where participation is voluntary, we might expect scores to be higher on average, as only students interested in taking the test actually take it.

The participation rate in Massachusetts, for example, was 28 percent. The small number of Massachusetts students who took the ACT in 2015 scored a 24.4 on average. Is that because Massachusetts has a superior education system, or because the composition of students is different? New Hampshire, Maine, New York, and Connecticut were also among the top performing states on this year’s ACT, but participation in those states ranged from only 10 to 28 percent.

Scores on the ACT should be paired with other data to determine how well schools, districts, and states are preparing students for college. Let’s take a look at another measure—remediation rates. The map below shows the percentage of students by county who enrolled in remedial coursework in college (coursework they already should have completed in high school) in 2014. Red indicates higher percentages and green indicates lower percentages of enrollment in remedial courses. In the lower half of the state, there is a whole lot of red—63.3 percent of graduates from Ash Grove High School in Ash Grove, Missouri, for example, enrolled in remedial coursework in 2014.

Getting students to college is important, but it’s only half the battle. Missouri should not lose sight of the goal of true college readiness. It is great to see that as more students are taking the test, scores are going up. But with remediation rates like those in Missouri, it’s clear that much work remains to be done.

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Gov. Rick Scott is teaming up with a fellow Republican governor this week in urging businesses based in Missouri to head to states with better business climates.

With Gov. Jay Nixon vetoing $700 million in tax cuts earlier this year, Scott is calling for businesses to move from the Show Me State to the Sunshine State….

Scott’s office sent a letter to Missouri businesses earlier in the week, highlighting Florida’s business climate. So far this year, Scott has sent similar letters to businesses based in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and New York. Like Missouri, all of those states have Democratic governors.

You may not like The Ricks, but the fact of the matter is that when you look at where Missouri’s money is moving these days, Florida is high on the list of its destinations. Like Texas, it is a serious threat to Missouri’s economic future.

How do we know that? Let’s start with Saint Louis County as an example, from the website How Money Walks. Where has the wealth from Missouri’s largest county been moving since 1992? (Graph omitted for space.)

Two of the top five counties that Saint Louis County lost wealth to are in Florida, although the County’s neighbors — particularly Saint Charles — got in on the action as well. (Note also that Saint Louis County’s main source of inbound wealth was … Saint Louis City.)

Of course, Florida isn’t the only threat. Which state is an obvious threat to the wealth of Jackson County, our second-largest county? (Again, graph omitted.)

No. 1 destination: Kansas, specifically Johnson County.

Missouri is not powerless in all this. We should be actively seeking ways of making the state a better place to live, work, and play — not a better place to grow government. Frankly, it’s frustrating to hear politicians with a penchant for false bravado act like this cash exodus isn’t happening. For once, policymakers, try empowering Missourians to grow this state rather than turning them into Texans, Kansans, and Floridians through your inaction. Stop the excuses. Enough is enough.

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The brainchild of British transplant Stan Brock, RAM started as a relief service abroad. But for many years it also has turned its services inward to help America’s neediest, providing medical care to those who otherwise would not have received it. Brock told 60 Minutes in a 2008 report (featured above) that his organization “operate[s] entirely on the generosity of the American people.” Like so many families, stretching those sometimes “little checks” is how RAM makes ends meet. In addition, thousands of highly-trained and medically-licensed volunteers have traveled the country assisting Brock’s work for decades by providing their professional services free of charge.

Yet a recurring stumbling block as RAM visits states is artificial barriers to entry – that is, state laws that prevent out-of-state volunteers from easily donating their medical expertise because of burdensome, and sometimes expensive, licensing requirements. During a phone call last week, Mr. Brock told me that RAM wanted to do more in Missouri, but onerous state requirements — such as requiring licensed in-state medical personnel to participate in a clinic before RAM could provide its services — had stifled his organization on several occasions. Most recently, he said, Missouri regulations prevented RAM from providing free eyeglasses to the southwest corner of the state.

But Missouri could make it easier for groups like RAM to help the state’s neediest if officials relax licensing rules and explicitly allow medical professionals licensed in other states to provide their services for these charitable endeavors. Tennessee has led the way on this policy front.

In 1995, Tennessee enacted the “Volunteer Health Care Services Act,” a reform of its medical licensing law which allowed relief organizations like RAM to bring out-of-state medical professionals to help Tennessee’s poor without putting professionals licensed in their home states through an arduous and unnecessary process of re-licensing. If a doctor is licensed to practice in her home state, RAM can bring that doctor to provide her services free of charge to Tennessee’s medically-underserved. It is, in short, a clear and unambiguous law that ensures the state’s neediest are served ably and safely.

The good news? The reform movement appears to be spreading, with a handful of states following Tennessee’s lead in whole or in part. Oklahoma has reformed its laws to accommodate organizations like RAM, and more recently, Connecticut and Illinois passed legislation that allows organizations like RAM greater access to its neediest citizens. Arizona currently is taking up a reform of its own laws.

Tennessee’s law is a model for the country – and a model that Missouri, one of Tennessee’s neighbors, would do well to emulate. Allowing organizations like RAM to freely enter Missouri would go a long way towards improving care to Missouri’s underserved. When burdensome licensing laws and medical regulation interfere with the delivery of skilled, safe, and desperately needed services to America’s poor, the system is in need of reform. For Missouri, relaxing licensing laws for charitable groups like RAM would be a step in the right direction.

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You can watch the full episode here:

In the episode, Jenna stars in a horror film that’s shot in Connecticut. It turns out that Connecticut will only give tax credits to films that promote tourism. So, instead of shutting down the film, the producers change it to be very pro-Connecticut. They decorate the killer’s dungeon with Yale pennants and  posters that say, “Visit Connecticut.” They also write www.IheartConnecticut.com in blood on the wall, and they dress up one of the victims in a UConn Huskies shirt.

They even change the dialogue:

SLAUGHTERFACE: “No one is going to save you. Because we’re deep inside one of Connecticut’s 30 beautiful state forests. Thirty!”

JENNA: “Oh, please don’t kill me! I still haven’t tried the famous seafood pizza at Sally’s in New Haven.”

It’s hilarious. This shows how filmmakers will change the message of their films in order to get film tax credits from a state. This is something that I have discussed before on the blog.

It’s no secret that government officials sometimes deny tax credits to films that don’t send a positive message about the state. It may be possible that this happens in Missouri, too. Consider Up In the Air, which received $4.1 million in tax credits to shoot in Missouri in 2009. One scene sounds like a commercial for Lambert Airport. At one point, George Clooney’s character says:

Are you kidding — Lambert Field? The Wright brothers flew through there. That domed main terminal is the first of its kind; it’s a precursor of everything from JFK to de Gaulle.

This wasn’t the first time that “30 Rock” highlighted the ludicrousness of film tax credit programs — It was also a plot point in an episode last season, in which Jenna starred in a movie about werewolfs that shot in Iceland. They shot the film there because the Icelandic government gave them tax credits, but they could only shoot during the one minute of darkness each day.

In economist-speak, we would say that Iceland does not have a comparative advantage in werewolf films, relative to other locations. (Similarly, Missouri doesn’t have a comparative advantage in filmmaking. We’re better at making other things!)

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In the past decade, the nine states with the highest personal income tax rates have seen gross state product increase by 59.8%, personal income grow by 51%, and population increase by 6.1%. The nine states with no personal income tax have seen gross state product increase by 86.3%, personal income grow by 64.1%, and population increase by 15.5%.
[…]
Over the past 50 years, 11 states have introduced state income taxes exactly as Messrs. Gates and their allies are proposing—and the consequences have been devastating.

The 11 states where income taxes were adopted over the past 50 years are: Connecticut (1991), New Jersey (1976), Ohio (1971), Rhode Island (1971), Pennsylvania (1971), Maine (1969), Illinois (1969), Nebraska (1967), Michigan (1967), Indiana (1963) and West Virginia (1961).

Each and every state that introduced an income tax saw its share of total U.S. output decline. Some of the states, like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio, have become fiscal basket cases. As the nearby chart shows, even West Virginia, which was poor to begin with, got relatively poorer after adopting a state income tax.

These findings support the conclusions of a number of Show-Me Institute publications. In March, we published a policy study showing that taxes have a negative impact on economic activity. I used that data to write an op-ed. Show-Me Institute Chief Economist Joe Haslag and intern Abhi Sivasailam wrote last fall about the relative benefits of a sales tax versus an income tax. Finally, policy analysts Dave and Jenifer Roland compared the economic growth of Missouri to Tennessee, and found Missouri falling behind Tennessee, possibly because of Tennessee’s lack of an income tax.

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Every dime that the state takes away from an individual or business, through an income tax, is essentially taken out of the productive economy. Consequently, the capital that would have been spent investing in future goods is no longer available to the entity that would have otherwise used it. This, in effect, stifles growth.

Some might argue that public spending pumps that money back into the economy, but the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a perfect example of that kind of Keynesian theory failing in practice. The bill massively increased government spending,but did little to stimulate growth in the economy; unemployment remains around 10 percent. In practice, government spending provides much less of a stimulative effect than comparable tax cuts.

It would be in Missouri’s best interest to lower — or even abolish — the state income tax, thus enabling Missourians to spend and invest more of their own money to grow our stagnant economy. As demonstrated in the table below, which displays average annual growth rates per state between 1997 and 2008, Missouri’s growth ranks seventh-worst in the nation. Abolishing or reducing the state income tax would be a step in the right direction toward positive change.

Source for GDP Numbers: Bureau of Economic Analysis

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If one thinks about the AAMC report, it seems that there may be an even greater problem than the organization has estimated. That is because few medical students are choosing primary care specialties. The growth of the aging baby boomer population means there will be an even greater shortfall. In some states, people are concerned about these issues, but there seems to be little discussion in Missouri.

In Wisconsin, it was found that they were short 374 primary care physicians this year, and by 2030, there will be a 14-percent shortfall. In Massachusetts, the state’s health care experiment resulted in 440,000 new people with health care insurance, and their problems are going to be even greater given that about 52 percent of their medical residents in training are planning to move out of state after graduation. In Connecticut, just like in many other states, there is an aging physician population among those involved in “family practice,” and doctors are finding it difficult to recruit young physicians.

Both the House and Senate bills proposed to reform the nation’s health care system speak about the need to increase the numbers of primary health care practitioners. However, if one performs a comparison, a resolution to this issue does not appear to be addressed in a direct manner in either version. The bills under discussion now seem aimed at increasing incentives to providers, but not increasing provider numbers. It takes years to train competent physicians. If these bills (or some combination of them) pass into law, and if provider incentives attract more Americans to want to become physicians, this country will still continue to have an inadequate physician supply for many years. This lag period will harm us all.

In the past some have thought that physicians induce a service demand. How that figures into our current problem was discussed elsewhere recently. But physician-induced demand does not matter when there are not enough physicians. If things continue as they are now, someday you will be old and sick and unable to find a competent physician.

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If there is a lesson from Connecticut’s misfortune, it is that economic development that relies on the strong arm of government will never be the kind to create sustainable growth.

This is a lesson that cities like Saint Louis should remember and asseverate in their future development projects. As demonstrated in New London, government involvement produces opposite-than-desired results, such as driving out businesses and attracting feral cats.

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My favorite part of the article is the section on how the retailers that sell gas in Missouri often sell other products (left unsaid is that the main product is beer) that allow them to keep gas prices low and make nice profits on those other sales. We often forget in Missouri how much stricter other states can be about who, when, and what can sell alchohol. Here, we just buy it at gas stations, grocery stores, liquor stores, blood donation centers, anywhere. And we can buy it just about anytime except early Sunday mornings. My friends and I made innumerable late-night beer runs from Fairfield, Conn., to Portchester, N.Y. (one-hour round trip if you drove really fast), in college because of Connecticut’s stupid 8 p.m. alchohol sales cut-off law. Dear God, do I love Anheuser-Busch and its lobbying efforts!

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Apparently this is supposed to create an “incentive.” Sarah Brodsky has written about cash incentive programs before, so I refer readers to her post on the matter.

Personally, I thought that the incentive came from the fact that a passing grade on an AP test exempts the student from college coursework (about $412 per credit hour on average at a four-year public university, by my count), but I guess Exxon-Mobil has to find something to do with that $34.5 billion of cash it has on its balance sheet. …

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I also must recommend this amazing article about the changing political worldview of playwright David Mamet, written by Mr. Mamet as an essay in one act. While Mamet has never thrown anything at me for no reason whatsoever, I still loved the article, which briefly gets into the economics of Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman. Link via Drudge. (Hey, Drudge, I have now linked to you, so I believe it’s your turn to link to me.)

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Tuesday’s recall of St. Louis Alderman Thomas Bauer puts all Missouri public officials on notice: voters won’t put up with politicians who abuse the power of eminent domain for the benefit of well-connected private developers. Voters in the 24th Ward were outraged after Bauer attempted to seize several homes and businesses at the corner of Manchester and McCausland in order to make room for a QuikTrip gas station.

It’s inspiring to see ordinary Missourians standing up for their rights in the political process, but the fact that the effort got as far as it did only highlights how the courts have been shirking their duty to protect private property. With Tuesday’s victory under their belts, Missouri property owners should keep up the pressure on elected officials to reform the state’s eminent domain system. Homeowners shouldn’t be forced to take the drastic step of recalling their elected officials just to keep their homes.

Eminent domain, the power of government officials to seize private property, is supposed to be used for public infrastructure like roads and courthouses. The United States Constitution says that property may only be taken “for public use,” and only with “just compensation.” But over the years, that power has been abused by local officials who define “public use” in increasingly questionable ways.

The issue reached the Supreme Court this summer in the case of Kelo v. New London. The city of New London, Connecticut, sought to condemn more than 100 private homes and businesses to make room for new research facility being planned by drug maker Pfizer. The only “public use” the city could cite was “economic development”—in essence, that the new owners would pay higher property taxes than the old ones.

The court ruled for the city in a bitterly divided 5-4 decision. In an eloquent dissent, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor charged that as a result of the decision, “The specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory.” Bauer’s QuikTrip boondoggle demonstrates the truth of O’Connor’s warning. He claims that the project qualifies as a “public use” because QuikTrip has promised to pay for a new right-turn lane at the intersection. But it’s not clear why it’s necessary to condemn several homes and businesses just to make room for a turn lane. And if chipping in some money for public infrastructure transforms any private development into a public use, then none of our homes or businesses are safe.

Fortunately for Missourians, help may be on the way. The Kelo decision focused on the protections available under the United States Constitution, but individual states are free to enact stronger protections for property rights at the state level. Governor Blunt has created a Task Force on Eminent Domain, which will make recommendations in December on how to reform Missouri’s eminent domain system.

It’s great that voters responded when one elected official stepped over the line, but the fact that the recall was necessary shows the inadequacy of Missouri’s legal protections for private property. Missouri’s eminent domain system needs to be fixed so that homeowners can once again be sure that their rights will be upheld in court. Our laws shouldn’t allow politicians like Thomas Bauer to play political games with their constituents’ homes and businesses.

Timothy B. Lee is an editor at the Show-Me Institute.

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