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This is just my opinion but if you live in Missouri, get out and vote on November 7th. If you are a slacker then go vote absentee on a weekday and get it over with. I have already cast my vote! There are a lot of important items on the ballot this time around. Here are the proposed constitutional amendments and where my vote went.
This is just the ballot text for the amendments. Get the full text for all the amendments here
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 2 [I voted YES]
Proposed by Initiative Petition
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to allow and set limitations on stem cell research, therapies, and cures which will:
· ensure Missouri patients have access to any therapies and cures, and allow Missouri researchers to conduct any research, permitted under federal law;
· ban human cloning or attempted cloning;
· require expert medical and public oversight and annual reports on the nature and purpose of stem cell research;
· impose criminal and civil penalties for any violations; and
· prohibit state or local governments from preventing or discouraging lawful stem cell research, therapies and cures?
The proposed constitutional amendment would have an estimated annual fiscal impact on state and local governments of $0-$68,916.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 3 [I voted NO]
Proposed by Initiative Petition
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to create a Healthy Future Trust Fund which will:
1. be used to reduce and prevent tobacco use, to increase funding for healthcare access and treatment for eligible low-income individuals and Medicaid recipients, and to cover administrative costs;
2. be funded by a tax of four cents per cigarette and twenty percent on other tobacco products; and
3. be kept separate from general revenue and annually audited?
Additional taxes of four cents per cigarette and twenty percent of the manufacturer’s invoice price on other tobacco products generates an estimated $351 - $499 million annually for tobacco control programs, healthcare for low income Missourians, and payments for services provided to Missouri Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured Missourians. Local governmental fiscal impact is unknown.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 6 [I voted YES]
Proposed by 93rd General Assembly
(Second Regular Session) SJR 26
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to include a tax exemption for real and personal property that is used or held exclusively for nonprofit purposes or activities of veterans’ organizations?
It is estimated this proposal will have a minimal cost to state government. The estimated costs to local governmental entities range from zero to approximately $45,000.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 7 [I voted YES]
Proposed by 93rd General Assembly
(Second Regular Session) HJR 55
Shall Article XIII, Section 3 of the Constitution be amended to require that legislators, statewide elected officials, and judges forfeit state pensions upon felony conviction, removal from office following impeachment or for misconduct, and to require that compensation for such persons be set by a citizens’ commission subject to voter referendum?
It is estimated this proposal will have no costs to state or local governments.
This post pushed me to research exactly who and what I will be voting on here in MN on the 7th. Thank you. If I was voting in MO I would vote YES to #3 concerning tobacco tax… for obvious reasons.
I don’t think the tax will be used properly. I doubt anything that comes of it short of the hike in the cost of tobacco will help prevent tobacco use. It should be made more obvious that amendment 3 exists to fund Medicaid beneficiaries. Does Medicaid need that? I believe the collected taxes could be used more appropriately. I am however not against heavier taxes on tobacco.
(1) Seventeen and one-half percent of the net proceeds shall be credited to and placed in the Tobacco Use Prevention, Education, and Cessation Account;
(2) Eighty two and one-half percent of the net proceeds shall be credited to and placed in the Health Care Access and Treatment Account.
Posted by Josh Houghtelin, on October 29th, 2006, às 4:53 pm. #.
Hey! Go to Bonipulator and read the article I wrote to the editor of the Democrat!!
by the way…. I miss you guys! we really need to get together and throw back a few!
Bonnie
Posted by Bonipulator, on November 8th, 2006, às 12:43 am. #.
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