“Bad Luck Schleprock” Why do Democrats good intentions (such as raising taxes) always seem to backfire and make a problem worse? Remember the infamous “luxury tax” from the early 1990′s: From an Advertiser Tribune article (Ohio) “In 1991, a 10-percent excise tax was enacted on the portion of sales prices higher than $30,000 for automobiles, [...]

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“Momma always said life was like a box of chocolates….” “Red ink for Missouri: Incoming governor Jay Nixon will have to act fast or face a $340 million deficit.“ That’s the headline today on the St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Internet front page. If you think you’re having a deja vu moment, you’re not. Mr. Haney, [...]

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By Carl Bearden and Phil Kerpen The U.S. Senate finished its week long debate on a massive new regulatory scheme known as “cap-and-trade, a phrase the Washington Post described as a “pithy marketing gimmick. On Friday, June 6, the Senate failed by a margin of 48 – 36 to get the 60 votes needed for [...]

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According to The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis Report on the Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade legislation, Missouri would lose 42,071 manufacturing jobs in 2030 should this legislation become law. Across the country, the already hard hit manufacturing sector of our economy would lose millions more jobs. Household energy costs would rise dramatically, and household [...]

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From the Branson Missouri blog: Soon, the “Bloodmoney Reduction Act” will be submitted to Branson Alderman. The initiative sponsored by “People against corruption and Faux-change” will propose the city of Branson utilize an estimated $70,000 collected annually through cigarette sells to be used to fund provision of smoking cessation devices. Read more… [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/o_LutWBunb4" width="425" [...]

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By John Elliott I find it enlightening to see how quickly letter and editorial writers across Missouri are to push our elected leaders to return to the failed, antiquated policy of excessive spending as the sole means for solving problems. It seems to me that the government can never be satiated, that it can never [...]

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