• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    If this passes, people are going to buy from places that don’t charge as much for sales tax, like physical stores over the border or ignorant online stores. The Missouri government will be shooting Missourians in the foot.

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      5 days ago

      Nah this is great for the wealthy. Whose expenses are a far smaller proportion of their income.

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      The Missouri government will be shooting Missourians in the foot.

      this is republican playbook 101. convince constituents to vote against their own best interests for reasons… usually f.u.d.

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        Am misorian, can confirm. They’re motherfucking crabs in a bucket. Holding back everyone, but especially all of us in the two urban blue cores. Purely out of spite.

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      Yep, which happens in other no-income tax states without high tourist or property taxes. It has gotten to the point in some of those states that they are trying to put wealth tax in for to make up for losses.