Ryan Ludwick had a double and a single and drove in two runs. Felipe Lopez was the only other Cardinals player with two hits, a double and a single as the Mets beat the Cardinals 6-5.
Collecting an existing tax: a tax increase?
March 15, 2010 By
If you’re supposed to pay a tax and you don’t, is it a tax increase when the state forces you to pay the tax you owe? To hear one Senator argue the point, it is.
At issue is a bill setting up a system to collect Missouri sales taxes on items bought and sold through the internet, or from out-of-state catalogues or out-of-state stores Sponsors say brick and mortar retailers are at a disadvantage because they have to collect sales taxes but internet merchants don’t.
Senator Jason Crowell of Cape Girardeau, who says he buys a lot of things on the internet and never pays taxes on them, argues with Senator Gary Nodler of Joplin that the bill requiring him to pay sales taxes would be a tax increase. Crowell and Nodler argue :26 mp3
The bill does not establish any new taxes. But it does set up a mechanism for the state to collect state sales taxes that sponsors say people should be paying.
The sponsor of the bill says Missouri loses 160-million dollars a year because people like Crowell buy things on the internet and don’t pay sales taxes on them.
The senate plans more debate on the bill later.
Missouri Democrats differ on how Democrats in Washington are pushing health care
March 15, 2010 By
Democrats in Washington are poised to use a controversial tactic to shepherd the health care overhaul bill to passage. Two Missouri Democrats have differing views on the matter.
Bond knows Nixon’s pain
March 15, 2010 By
Senator Bond has some sympathy for Governor Nixon’s budget problems. But he has no advice.
Bond recalls beginning his second term in 1981 knowing that the administration of his predecessor, Joseph Teasdale, had significantly overspent in the first half of the fiscal year. Bond determined that the budget would have to be slashed $900 million for the second half of the fiscal year. [Read more...]
Defense Dept., Lincoln U. partner in high-tech research to keep troops safer
March 15, 2010 By
When troops are looking for car bombs, they’re be using Missouri technology. Lincoln University is helping soldiers in the Middle East survive. It’s also helping those who return survive.
The Historically Black College in Jefferson City is heading up Suicide Prevention Research; Laser-based Detection of Unexploded Ordnance and IEDs; Land Mine Detection Training Improvement; and a Missouri Multi-Threat Detection Initiative.
Lincoln President Carolyn Mahoney says the college was founded for and by civil war soldiers, and continuing that tradition is important.
Senator Bond, who helped secure funding for the project, says the fate of our young men and women in harm’s way is directly related to the work being done at Lincoln.
Senator Bond is vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He helped secure funding for the initiative.
Bond says it’s all about staying one step ahead of the enemy, using engineering, technology and science … and that’s where Missouri’s brightest excel in saving lives.
