TAP DANCING AROUND TAXES

It's that time again!  State and Congressional offices slow down and legislators go home.


Back home, elected officials try to win over voters by tap dancing around the quick sand of taxes, and budgets as they try to explain why they voted as they did.


This is what happened here in Missouri.


On the last day of their Session, the men and women we elected to office passed a Budget which voters will now pay for dearly.  The Governor called the Budget a "grab-bag of giveaways!"


Missouri State Senator Paul LeVota from Independence explained that his vote to exempt the sales tax from membership fees to the Sprint Center in Kansas City was because those taxes were not being collected anyway.  Now, if that does not sound like tap dancing, I don't know what does.


 In the meantime,  a new movement is underway here in the Show Me State .  This one proposes to do away with all income tax and replace it with sales taxes just like they have in Las Vegas. Buy that one and there is a Bridge I want to sell you!


Did I hear tap dancing?