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Eliminating the income tax is easy. Replacing it is not

Gov. Mike Kehoe’s recent announcement that he wants to eliminate Missouri’s income tax causes me to paraphrase this old poem, used often by the late Sen. Russell Long, longtime chair (1966-1981) of the Senate Finance Committee, when considering proposals for whatever was presented as “tax reform:” Governor, governor: don’t tax me, tax the man behind […]

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