[sockmonkey]

Sorry to be snotty, but I am sick and tired of people repeating this "special fund" nonsense.

You can be snotty all you like. I smoke, and I am stockpiling my freezer with cigarettes, and will go out of state, even if it costs me more in gas money to do it just out of principal. I live smack dab in the middle of the state, so I'm at least 6 hours from any state lines.

I pay school taxes on my property-Now I'm expected to pay 712 dollars in taxes on cigarettes, and my big property tax decrease that was touted here in Texas was 42 dollars.

[zeugma]

It's sad how tax decreases never seem to materialize, but tax increases always do.

[GnuHere]

I voted against this tax.
I have lived in MO all my life, aside from a brief spell in the highly esteemed state of Iowa. I know the geography. If you have to spend 6 hours driving to a state line, you must be driving a bicycle, or else you are not "smack dab" in the middle of the state. Maybe you are picturing driving from the boot heel to St. Joe. I just don't appreciate this dramatic mischaracterizasion of our state.
There is no one in mid-Missouri who is 6 hours from a state line. Period.
Thank you.

[GnuHere]

Are we talking about MO or TX? I thought this was started about the stupid MO Amendment 3 vote.

[GnuHere]

I apologize to you, as I now guess you were talking about TX.