Tom, thanks, I agree with you, hope our legislators will do the right thing.
Jerry "Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience...without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." ---Ronald Reagan From: missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com [mailto:missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Martz Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:09 PM To: MLC Google Group; Young Conservations Subject: [MoLiCo] Fwd: Veto Session Begins Today ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Martz <t.ma...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:08 PM Subject: Re: Veto Session Begins Today To: Ladies and gentlemen PROOF positive that this lady hasn't a clue as to what the constitution says and what they can do as a legislator. HB1329 is clearly a tax which can NOT by our constitution be passed and forced onto the people without a vote of the people. In terms of the other bill these protections are already codified in statuette, the Governor is CORRECT to have veto'd these. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Senator Luann Ridgeway <luann.ridge...@senate.mo.gov> wrote: Is this email not displaying correctly? <http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=fa6386a617fc8b6eeec652eac&id=6919e1838f &e=9852617d1b> View it in your browser. <http://senate.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa6386a617fc8b6eeec652eac&i d=c0899795c2&e=9852617d1b> Official Website of Senator Luann Ridgeway <http://gallery.mailchimp.com/653153ae841fd11de66ad181a/images/transparent.g if> Veto Session Begins Today, September 12, 2012 Members of the Missouri House and Senate have made their way back to Jefferson City for the annual veto session. Our state Constitution requires us to meet at this time to consider overriding any vetoes the Governor cast against legislation passed by the General Assembly. It looks like this veto session may take a little longer than veto sessions of the past several years. Of the 114 bills that passed through the Missouri General Assembly this year, 14 of them were vetoed by the governor, for one reason or another. Of these measures, 13 are up for consideration of a veto override -two of which have been talked about as most likely to be overridden by the Legislature, Senate Bill 749 and House Bill 1329. Senate Bill 749 would have provided protection for the religious beliefs as to the imposition of certain health care services such as abortion, contraception or sterilization. This measure gained a great deal of attention throughout the regular legislative session, on the heels of the federal government's plan to nationalize health care. There was really nothing new in SB 749. It was mainly meant to reaffirm existing law that keeps government out of the business of telling religious organizations they have to violate their own ethics in order to fulfill a so-called obligation. Our out-of-control federal government seems to be in the business of restricting and eliminating freedoms these days, and SB749 would have kept some of these actions from continuing. House Bill 1329 has started to gain renewed attention as we approach veto session. As passed by the Legislature, the law was designed to modify the law regarding the issuance of temporary permit tags and the collection of sales taxes on motor vehicles, trailers, boats and outboard motors. Earlier this year, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled if a car, boat or trailer was bought outside of the Show-Me-State, cities and counties could not collect the sales tax from that purchase. This ruling created a setback and economic disadvantage for Missouri based businesses. The court created tax loophole provides an incentive for Missourians to buy vehicles out-of-state. House Bill 1329 would have fixed this loophole. The governor's veto greatly affects more folks who live close to any of the eight states' boundary lines that surround Missouri. Some businesses in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas are looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue because of the court ruling and the veto of HB 1329 simply because the ruling says that you pay lower taxes by buying big purchases out of state. The argument in opposition to the override is that the law was written to provide seamless consistency in tax policy before and after the court decision. While this seems to make sense, the problem is that there are Missourians who purchased motor vehicles, trailers, boats and outboard motors out of state. They paid the taxes that were due at the time. I doubt many, if any, of these people made their purchase because they thought they could reduce their tax burden as many of the purchases were made before or at the time of the court ruling. Nonetheless, the Governor has already stated his intention to send big tax bills to these people if his veto is not upheld. I don't know how those of us in the House and Senate will respond to this kind of tactic by the Governor. As I mentioned earlier, approximately one-tenth of the bills that were passed by the Legislature this year were vetoed. In some cases, it was because a bill contained language in another bill that was already signed into law. In other instances, it was because the Governor and lawmakers did not see eye-to-eye. I would also like to note that there is no special session this year, for the first time in three years. This comes as good news, because it costs extra money to hold a special session. 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