Missouri's large pandemic-era revenue surplus—which peaked near $6 billion to $8 billion—has been heavily drawn down and nearly exhausted through ongoing state appropriations, legislative earmarks, and lagging revenues. However, Governor Mike Kehoe did not recklessly "blow through" it alone; rather, he has actively worked to cut spending, veto items, and freeze hundreds of millions in funds to manage the depleted balance.
@GovMikeKehoe Missourians: We elected you to eliminate state taxes
Missouri assembly: Ok we have the amendment on the ballot to eliminate state taxes
Missourians: ooohhh not like that. Can't you just do it for us?
@kylecordes@GovMikeKehoe Kehoe has DECREASED our property taxes each year. Anyone who writes the property tax check can tell you that. He wanted to modernize the tax code. For that he needed your vote.
Excise tax rates through December 31, 2025, which includes the January 2026 report for the December reporting period, are:
Liquor - $2.00 per gallon; Wine - $.42 per gallon; and Beer Products - $.06 per gallon.
These are what our Coutry Clubs pay to our state provide alcohol.
Kehoe wanted to modernize our tax code to INCREASE the tax on alcohol at our golf courses. Since we have a lot of travel destination golfers coming in from other states to drink and golf.
That’s what he wanted to increase! That was the plan to slowly eliminate ALL our income tax IF AND ONLY IF, our tourism tax of alcohol supported it!
No we don’t even get to TRY to eliminate it!
@Frapster@GovMikeKehoe If they took the time to attend a town hall, or meet Kehoe in PERSON and talk with him. They would know he’s a good honest guy. Too bad all the MILLIONS OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST DOLLARS went to funding NO on 4 & 5!!! The mental gymnastics to say no to eliminating income tax?!?
@Angie0944157428@GovMikeKehoe Yes, Missouri had a balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2025. The Missouri Constitution legally requires the state to pass a balanced operating budget each year.
@restore_GI_Bill@GovMikeKehoe Yes, Missouri had a balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2025. The Missouri Constitution legally requires the state to pass a balanced operating budget each year.
Many were confused by lies funded by the AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood and other special interest groups. Lies like the claim that if Amendment 4 passed, St. Louis would control the entire state when the exact opposite is true. Lies like individuals would be robbed of their votes when obviously the votes of those outside of the major metropolitan areas don't count.
This is 100% correct! No one went to the town halls to listen to the plan. NO-ONE went to meet Kehoe to ask questions. Everyone believed the LIES and said it would increase gas tax, increase grocery tax! To lazy to research. To lazy to look into what our constitution says! To lazy!
Everyone lives in fear. Everyone survives on the “what if’s” and “what abouts”. Not ONE PERSON D or R that I personally talked to even READ the actual literature!!! Everyone believes the left propaganda.
I worked in pandemic planning for 20 years. I was in the HHS command center for the first month of the pandemic.
We did everything wrong, against all our plans, the CDC/Fauci/Birx are responsible for it.
The path to dealing with pandemics has been known for millennia:
Protect the vulnerable (seniors in this case),
isolate the sick,
quarantine the exposed,
build herd immunity among the low risk population.
We instead isolated those at lowest risk, ignored post-infection immunity, prevented herd immunity, packed the most vulnerable into congregate living spaces with those currently ill (i.e., seniors), and made no attempt to determine the level of asymptomatic infection and natural immunity in the population.
I watched infighting between CDC and ASPR, with CDC refusing to share transmissibility or secondary attack rate information within HHS. I saw NIH, ASPR, CDC, and OASH folks fight over turf, instead of focusing on the disease.
I saw "the professionals" discard decades of preparedness and planning, and simply make stuff up as they went.
I saw public health officials at the local and state level play "hide the ball" with data and information, refusing to share it with policymakers, and refusing to justify their declarations and restrictions.
No discussions about the negative impact of their decisions. We know that hundreds of thousands have died from delayed cancer, cardiac, and other screenings of treatments.
The entire public health infrastructure, from local to national, failed miserably, with health "leaders" more interested in protecting their new-found authority than in protecting the public.
They have utterly destroyed their credibility, and millions have died and will die from that loss of trust.
And I grieve, because it didn't have to be this way.
Those of us who questioned “the science,” the origins of COVID, and the unnecessary vaccines were called conspiracy theorists, murderers, and told we didn’t care about our family, friends, or neighbors.
Like so many of us, @AaronRodgers12 was vindicated.
If "protect women's sports" is inherently political, so is "trans kids belong"
The WNBA doesn't have a problem with politics in sports. They have a problem with conservative politics in sports.
I think athletes like Aaron Rodgers, Cole Beasley, Kyrie Irving, Novak Djokovic, Bryson DeChambeau, etc., all deserve a MASSIVE apology from the media.
These people were objectively correct about masks/vax, and the “experts” and sheep were wrong. All the athletes who stood up to this insanity were treated like villains, and maliciously smeared by the media, and they deserve respect for standing up when it was the unpopular thing to do.
Unfortunately, I can say from personal experience, that day is never coming. None of us will ever get an apology. The Fauci-worshippers have quietly backtracked, and are content with pretending they didn’t try to put us all in camps, all based on lies.
They will never openly admit they were wrong, but deep down, they know. It’s up to us to never let them forget it, and never let them assume power of any kind again.