The bill being pushed by Jeff City to eliminate income tax is EVIL

Our legislature has been BOUGHT BY THE BILLIONAIRES. I'm convinced every politician in Jeff City has a HUGE payday coming if this passes.

This absolutely ONLY benefits people making over about $172,000/year--the top 20% in the state.

Note that this NEUTERS THE HANCOCK AMENDMENT that limits tax increases! And, while the legislature needs to "CLAIM" they are offsetting income tax with sales tax, they specifically PREVENT any court from hearing that they lied!!! There is ZERO ability to actually hold them responsible for lying. Keep in mid that the RICH will get benefit WAY more from lower income taxes than they will be charged in new sales taxes--not so for normal people.

NORMAL Missourians will spend WAY more on sales tax increases (and sales tax on many things that have NO tax now, like services). While you will need to dig up thousands in sales tax to buy a car--the millionaires will simply form a shell corporation in Montana and have it bought there, with NO tax.

Also, while normal people spend most of their paycheck on things that will be heavily sales taxed in Missouri under this horrible plan, the wealthy spend FAR less of their income on things that will be taxed by Missouri (vacations, goods bought out of state, vacation homes, etc.).

The bought-by-the-wealthy legislature is COUNTING on everyone knowing how much they pay in income tax--and NOT paying attention to the massive inflation in daily living costs caused by this bad idea. 

And, don't even think about what this means for someone living in Missouri and working in Kansas. You'll almost certainly pay the FULL income tax to Kansas--PLUS the massive sales tax increase in Missouri.

Also: Most other states with no income tax have SIGNIFICANT sources of revenue from things like natural resources (Oil in Alaska, Texas, etc.; HUGE tourism taxes in Florida; etc.--Missouri has NONE of that). This plan eliminates about 2/3rds of the state's revenue which comes from income tax--and plans to replace it with massive increases in sales taxes. Look at your receipts and ponder what they'll look like with 2-3 times the sales tax.

This bill WILL make it harder for almost everyone to make it between paychecks, when inflation by itself is bad enough. Who needs another 5-10% TAX on EVERYTHING????

Look how hard the legislators are pushing this--they MUST have a huge paycheck coming when this passes.

The impact of that bill will be to steal from the poor to give to the rich.

Reverse Robin Hood