Mississippi showing the way for West Virgina?

In 2004 Mississippi elected Republican Governor Haley Barbour and began implementing many of the reforms that Russ Sobel calls for in his book, "Unleashing Capitalism." Mississippi is showing that the very reforms that the Democrat controlled legislature has been blocking in West Virginia can turn the economy around.

Since 2004 Mississippi's per capita income has risen by 19.5 percent while the while the national average rose only 5.2% and West Virginia only rose by 4.7%. Mississippi has managed to take the worse economy in the nation and turn the corner by enacting tax and tort reform. Those reforms have been attracting business to the Gulf state.

Now is the time for West Virginia to make the necessary changes outlined by Sobel and turn our economy around.