Welcome

Welcome to The Coalition For Missouri’s Future. We’re a coalition of business, labor, education, healthcare, and civic organizations who have come together to oppose bad ideas that stop Missouri’s progress.

Our primary goal in 2012 is to keep the Everything Tax, a devastating tax proposal, off the ballot. Thanks to the hard work of all of our members, the Everything Tax is in deep trouble.

We’re not going away though. We know all too well that Rex Sinquefield, the billionaire behind The Everything Tax, will be back again in 2014, only one election away from thwarting Missouri’s progress.

Please join us as we fight to protect Missouri from bad ideas, and ensure progress continues to be made in strengthening Missouri’s economy.

The Star’s editorial | Good riddance to plan to wipe out Missouri income tax

April 18, 2012

“Say goodbye, for now, to multimillionaire Rex Sinquefield’s biggest bad idea.

“A judge’s ruling has all but wiped out the chance that Sinquefield’s radical tax restructuring proposal for Missouri will appear on the statewide ballot in November.

“Sinquefield has invested $2.5 million on an attempt to get voters to jettison the state’s income tax and replace it with a greatly expanded sales tax.

“It’s a far-out idea that would force Missourians to pay much more for groceries, homes and everything in between, while sparing wealthy citizens the need to pay income taxes. When Sinquefield’s hefty campaign contributions couldn’t bring him enough votes in the legislature to make the change, he turned to Missouri’s initiative petition process.”

Editorial: Sinquefield isn’t learning lessons from his political failures

April 17, 2012

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial

“In a blistering rebuke to Mr. Sinquefield, his lobbyists and state Auditor Tom Schweich, one of the recipients of Mr. Sinquefield’s political largesse, Judge Joyce ruled that the fiscal note Mr. Schweich attached to a proposal to eliminate the state income tax failed to tell voters how truly disastrous things would become.

“Relying on information he gleaned from Mr. Sinquefield’s paid staff, Mr. Schweich had estimated that by getting rid of the income tax and replacing it with a much larger sales tax, Missouri revenue probably would decrease by as much as $1.5 billion. But revenue might increase by about $300 million, he said.

“The numbers aren’t credible, Judge Joyce ruled, and the biggest reason is that Mr. Schweich’s estimate of the potential fiscal impact of the legislation assumes that the Legislature would replace the income tax with the highest sales tax the initiative would allow, about 7 percent on most purchases, no more than 5 percent on food.”