Tag: Missouri
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Voter Thoughts On Missouri 08/05/14 Ballot Questions
From Missouri Voter Jason: Here are my thoughts about the proposed constitutional amendments. #1. “Right to Farm.” The language is so broad that it is, to me, meaningless. There are statutes on the books (Section 537.295 of the Missouri Revised Statutes) that address the issue of “nuisance suits” that seem to be the core argument…
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The Boeing Bribe
According to Wikipedia, “a tax credit is a sum deducted from the total amount a taxpayer owes to the state. A tax credit may be granted for various types of taxes, such as an income tax, property tax, or VAT. It may be granted in recognition of taxes already paid, as a subsidy, or to…
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Cape County Tea Party – 8th CD Candidate Forum
In lieu of Cape County Tea Party’s regularly scheduled Third Tuesday Tea Time, the group organized and executed a 8th Congressional District Special Election Candidate Forum. The six candidates for the office vacated by Jo Ann Emerson took part in the forum held on Wednesday May 22, 2013 at 6:30pm at the Cape Public Library…
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Missouri Senate Bill 375 And House Bill 773
From Laura Hausladen: I am sending you this email to ask you to help with the effort to pass the “Making paper ballots the official ballot in MO” bills. These are companion bills–the Senate one is SB 375, the House’s is HB 773. . What the Bills Will Do: End the use of the touch…
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The Cheney-Law
Failing KC and St. Louis schools, faux balanced budgets, MO DOT wasting millions, an SOS that won’t clear the dead from the voters roles, attack after attack on our freedoms by the MO Legislature / Federal Government… …and our precious legislative session time is being used to argue the Cheney-Law… …about whether to let someone…
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MO: Caucus Outcome vs. Primary Outcome
At a time when the state and country is precariously perched on the edge of economic disaster, Missouri’s Representatives and Governor absolutely wasted $7,000,000 of our tax dollars on ‘an afterthought‘ and a ‘beauty contest’. In 2009, Missourians paid $2,378 per capita in state taxes. Using that figure, the elected leaders in the Missouri State…
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Missouri Bureaucracy To Increase Taxes On Farmers
Below, Senator Crowell brings to light yet another fiefdom in the Missouri Bureaucracy… — The Keep-It-Complex-Stupid Tax Commission. — …’Eight Categories based on Land Quality blah blah blah’ and ‘Valuation Increase from $985 an Acre to $1,065 an Acre yada yada yada’. So, just how many people does it take in this tax bureaucracy to…
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Missouri FY 2013 Budget Summary
Thanks to Donna Lichtenegger for forwarding summary information on Governor Nixon’s proposed 2013 budget below: Economists are generally predicting a slow but steady recovery for the U.S. economy which is still struggling with unemployment at 8.5%. There is a positive sign with the four-week moving average of weekly initial unemployment claims falling and stabilizing below…
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Blueprint For Missouri
The Rockin’ Conservative kept hearing about a “Blueprint for Missouri” but had little luck finding any details on the plan. We now have the bullet points! Thanks Donna Lichtenegger. Blueprint for Missouri Protecting Missouri Taxpayers Balanced budget with no new taxes County and school debt disclosure bill Taxpayer Protection Act Criminal justice reform Creation [Sic]…
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Happy New… …40,000 Laws
As New Year’s Eve passed, news stories started running to remind us that 40,000 new Local, State, and Federal laws had gone into effect — likely 39,999 attacks on our freedoms. I assumed some of those laws were from Missouri, so in an e-mail, I suggested to Cape Girardeau County’s Missouri State Legislators that they…
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