[Lokibob]

You know the are not going to spend it on health care, but, lets assume every penny of the new tax goes toward health care.

That would free up the money from the state budget that was supposed to go toward health care for other things in the budget.

The ONLY way these funds would go to health care is if the legislators PROMISED to RAISE health care funds by the amount of what the new taxes collected. You know that isn't what they will do.

[kcpopps]

Missouri just had a tax increase on the last ballot - for highway improvements. It was defeated. I think that was because a few years back, they had an increase passed for highway improvements... and once the state got the money in the bank, they spent large portions of it on things other than the roads, and the roads detiorated further. I think the voters remembered that.