Missouri voters continue rejecting taxes

Chris Blank, the Associated Press

Monday, November 19, 2012

Increase tobacco taxes? Add a cellphone tax? Raise gas taxes? No to all.

Missouri voters in recent decades have eschewed tax increases for a range of things: funding schools and transportation projects, improving 911 service and paying for health care efforts.

The proposals have been defeated narrowly and by sweeping margins; voted down during general elections, primaries and a spring election. And they have been rejected when backers of a previous failed attempt decided to try again.

Passing a tax increase in Missouri has proven to be awfully difficult, no matter the tax or the destination for the extra cash.

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spelchek 7 months ago

And we have a AAA credit rating to boot. Go away AP, we're not the hayseed hicks you think we are.

"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. " -- Winston Churchill

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