2024 MO Governor's race: on Tax Reform
Bill Eigel:
Repeal the regressive state personal property tax
Repeal Personal Property Tax in Missouri: No one should be punished every December 1st for the "crime" of just owning a car. Bill Eigel supports repealing personal property tax. This terribly regressive tax specifically harms middle and working class
households. Under Bill Eigel's plan, personal property tax will be phased out over several years, ensuring that local entity budgets currently tied to this funding can adjust and plan. NO MORE TAXING MISSOURIANS JUST FOR OWNING A CAR.
Source: 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial campaign website BillEigel.com
May 24, 2023
Bill Eigel:
Eliminate the corporate and personal income tax in Missouri
Eliminate Missouri Personal and Corporate Income Tax: Statistically, the states that have the fastest growing populations (and by extension, fastest growing economies) are those that have no personal income tax. It's time Missouri join Texas,
Florida, and Tennessee and enact the #1 pro-growth policy in America by eliminating the income tax. Bill Eigel supports eliminating the corporate and personal income tax in Missouri.
Source: 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial campaign website BillEigel.com
May 24, 2023
Jay Ashcroft:
Tax cuts are in order; give the money back to the people
The state's budget has gotten far too large, Ashcroft said, noting that in 2016 it topped out at $27 billion and has grown to more than $50 billion this year.
He said tax cuts are in order. "We have a huge surplus in Missouri, and Missouri families are struggling," he said. "We need to give that money back to the people."
Source: Missouri Independent on 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial race
Apr 6, 2023
Mike Kehoe:
Supported tax increases for transportation projects
As a state senator, he supported proposals that raised either sales or gas taxes to pay for major transportation projects. "I ran for Senate to let Missourians know our infrastructure system is unbelievably underfunded,"
Kehoe said. "And I'm the first guy to push for Missourians to vote to see if that is an appropriate way to fund transportation." He also said he's been in support of legislation that would cut taxes.
Source: St. Louis Public Radio on 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial race
May 18, 2023
Mike Kehoe:
I've cut way more taxes than I proposed
Kehoe defended his voting record and tied the gas tax hikes back to the Ashcroft family name. "I think at the end of the day, what Missourians will understand is that either as the leader in the Senate, when I was the floor leader, or as lieutenant
governor presiding over the two of the largest tax cuts that's ever happened in the state of Missouri, I've cut way more taxes than I proposed.""The issue that they're talking about was our proposition to try to increase the fuel tax so that
Missourians could invest more into the roads and investment in our road and bridge system. And when I was proposing that in 2013, nobody had had that conversation since the early nineties, when then John Ashcroft proposed and passed a gas tax on
Missourians as a way to fund infrastructure."
Does Kehoe think gas taxes are too high in Missouri? "As compared to other states? No, not at all. We're still in the lower quartile of what where our gas taxes are compared to other states," he said.
Source: KSDK on 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial race
May 18, 2023
Crystal Quade:
Proposed one-time $5000 tax credit for school staff
House Bill 2788, filed by State House Minority Leader Crystal Quade, looks to use the state's current budget surplus to give every elementary or secondary teacher a one time,
$5,000 tax credit. Quade said the fine tuning of who this money would go to would be flushed out during the legislative process. However, she hopes to include everyone working in the school.
Source: OzarksFirst.com on 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial race
Feb 27, 2022
Jay Ashcroft:
Opposed increase in state gas tax, state had a surplus
The Secretary of State also broke with Kehoe on sales and gas tax increases and said he would've voted differently. "No, we didn't need that," Ashcroft said. "I was a vocal, one of the main vocal proponents against the gas tax that just came up a
couple of years ago. We had $2 billion sitting in the bank. We didn't know what to do with it. I said there's no reason to raise taxes when we have money we don't know how to spend it."
Source: KSDK News on 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial race
Mar 2, 2023
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