Thanks for all your input. I am now convinced that the voters in the Show Me State rejected the tobacco tax because they did not trust their state government to use the taxes as stated on the ballot.
I hope this is a warning to future ballot initiatives that want to raise taxes.
Actually, I think it was a combination of the fact that everyone wondered when the tax on alcohol would begin. Then the tax on McDonalds food, then the tax on ____________( fill in the blank).
The other factor was with all the cuts to state programs in the past few years, it wasn't a reality for this to fill the gaps. There had to be more, and we were not willing to wait for the other boot to drop.