Tax Increase

Trying to make up $2.7 billion, Gov. Pat Quinn says his job is to tell lawmakers not what they want to hear, but what they need to hear.

2012/04/20

The state’s financial situation is so dire that any recovery plan that’s the least bit realistic will be unpleasant.

2012/01/27

The problem the legislature plans to address is that the current statute doesn’t include how to deal with a lack of significant funding increases

2012/01/19

“We are at a point in this state, in order to literally survive financially and get our heads above water.”

2012/01/06

St. Louis County Council Chairman Steve Stenger says it looks to him like “Dooley is grasping at straws to get his tax increase passed.”

2011/08/29

Missouri smokers may have to shell out 81 cents more per pack.

2011/04/21

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