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New Sales Taxes Overlap Existing Taxes—We're Charged Double
See what sales tax we pay here in Chesterfield and what it's supposed to be for.
A nearly secret amendment was added to a Missouri House bill for a sales tax in a southeast Missouri county, for library revenue. But the same measure also increases sales tax in the Great Rivers Greenway District for St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County. The reported purpose of this sales tax hike is to fund improvements on the grounds of the Jefferson Expansion Memorial, better known as the Gateway Arch—a federal park. The last-minute amendment was placed on the bill by St. Charles Representative Anne Zerr, a Republican, who was a former member of the Great Rivers Greenway District. Holy Catfish! A Republican trying to sneak a new tax onto a bill—do party leaders know about this? Of course City of St. Louis Mayor Francis …
Henry Glaus
12:26 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
the new propose change is remove the earning tax and replace it with sales tax and let the lawmaker increase taxes without voters approval. Missouri voters will vote this because they THINK working people will come out ahead, when only the high income people will be ahead of the game they will pay no earning tax and less sale tax.. then average worker(sale tax will be placed on more items that … more ›