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campaign mail, earnings tax, initiative, Kansas City, missouri, Propositon A, Rex Sinquefield, St. Louis
Ten million dollars buys a lot of slick paper.
Oh, look, happy yuppies who won’t ever have to worry about driving into St. Louis or Kansas City when there are no public services because all the shopping, cultural, sporting, and governmental venues will be shut down anyway! Awesome!
Uh, try, let the person with the fattest checkbook decide.
Let’s have a little logic lesson. The mail piece states:
…Yes on A lets voters decide if they want to prohibit new local earnings taxes in their cities and towns.
Under existing state law, new local earnings taxes could be imposed in other Missouri cities and towns. A Yes vote on Prop A prohibits the politicians from imposing any new local earnings taxes on working people and businesses in Missouri…
Uh, what’s a politician? Does this mean that unelected people in politics, you know, people running for office but not yet elected get to decide? Just asking. Or, is that elected officials who were, you know, elected by the voters in their jurisdiction? Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?
“…Yes on A lets voters decide if they want to prohibit new local earnings taxes in their cities and towns…”
Bullshit. This initiative lets other voters across the state decide what cities and towns across the state can do when it comes to an earnings tax. There is a difference.
These folks think Missouri voters are stoopid. And if we let them get away with this we are.
Previously:
Let me count the ways Proposition A sucks. (October 13, 2010)
Campaign Finance: United for Missouri’s Priorities – opposing the billionaire on Proposition A (October 7, 2010)
What ten million dollars gets you (October 5, 2010)
The definition of obscenity (October 1, 2010)
Let’s tell you ’bout their best friends (June 23, 2010)
Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (r): the base reaches out and opens up their wallets (June 22, 2010)
Even more millions here and even more millions there… (June 21, 2010)
A million here and a million there… (June 4, 2010)
I urge all Missourians to vote NO on Proposition A, which purports to prevent cities and counties from imposing an earnings tax and requires a vote of the people in St. Louis and Kansas City on those cities’ current earnings tax. This proposition is misguided and not needed.
The only cities currently authorized by state law to impose an earnings tax are St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph. (See Sections 92.110 and 92.210, RSMo.) St. Louis and Kansas City approved their earnings tax by a vote of the people when they approved their city charters. St. Joseph has no earnings tax. No other city or county can impose an earnings tax. It would require a change to current State law before a city or county could even propose an earnings tax. Even if such a change were made, the city or county seeking to impose such a tax would have to submit it to a vote of the people before it could be approved, which is a requirement of the Hancock Amendment.
This amendment to State law is only on the ballot because of one man, Rex Sinquefield. He paid for the workers to get the signatures to put this on the ballot, he paid for the legal work to draft the amendment, and he is paying for the misleading advertising supporting this amendment.
In my opinion, there is no need for this amendment. Current state law does not authorize any city or county, other than St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph, to impose an earnings tax. All this amendment will do is completely gut the budgets of our biggest cities. If the people of these cities want to get rid of their earnings tax, let them do it. They can petition to put it on their own ballot, not a statewide ballot.
This is not an issue for us to be voting on statewide. It is an issue of local control. I live in Cole County and I have no busines telling another local entity what to do, just like I don’t want them messing in Cole County or Jefferson City business.
Larry Leip
Are they also saying the following: All of you in the Cities should start shopping in the suburbs, but don’t pay the sales taxes because you don’t live there. Then folks from the cities should go out into the rural areas and start buying up properties which will be relatively cheaper since they won’t have to pay the property taxes since they don’t live there. Dude, seriously?!
Then again, the ones who fought Obamacare because it was from far away, they wanted to be left alone, and not told what to do are the people who can’t leave others well enough alone and want to tell the places they don’t live what to do.
If you don’t think