Dear Editor:
Remember taxpayers that if Amendment 7, the sales tax increase, passes you will have to pay an extra $200 in sales tax on a typical $26,000 new car or pickup.
Amendment 7 is the largest tax increase in Missouri history and deserves to be defeated because it places the cost of roads on the poor and middle class, rather than taxing the people who use the roads the most. The fairest tax is the fuel tax because it directly taxes users by the mile.
The Missouri Legislature has spent a lot of time jawboning about a better business climate. Did they consider that raising the sales tax would damage the business climate? Apparently not.
It was sneaky and unfair for the Legislature to cut the state income tax to help the wealthiest but then propose this tax which hits lower income families the hardest.
Many of the projects on the MoDOT wish list will never be constructed. MoDOT has a long history of over-promising and under-delivering.
This proposed sales tax increase was cooked up by trucking companies in the back rooms of the Legislature where lobbyist money flows freely. These companies do not want to pay their fair share of the cost of road maintenance.
I will vote no on Amendment 7.
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