A stash of diapers in KeYanna Roddy's newborn son's room on on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Roddy says her newborn averages 10 to 15 diapers a day. She relies on donations of diapers from an agency as well as family and friends. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
Regarding “After first rejecting it on a technicality, Missouri attorney general signs off on bid to put gas tax increase on ballot” (May 28): Attorney General Eric Schmitt has approved the referendum language submitted by Americans for Prosperity, the organization founded by the billionaire Koch brothers, to increase the current 17-cent gas tax to 29.5 cents over five years. That got me wondering how voters would vote on other Missouri taxes if they had the chance.
Specifically, I’m curious if voters would uphold the current Missouri luxury sales of 4.2% tax that each mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and child care provider pays for baby diapers in Missouri. Baby diapers are taxed here as a luxury item and fall into the same luxury sales tax rate as beer, cigarettes and jewelry. The same tax rate applies to the incontinence diapers that senior citizens sometime need.
But never fear, if anyone needs soda or candy, in Missouri those are considered necessities, and as such are taxed at the grocery rate of 1.225%. Apparently, based on the taxing structure, the Missouri Legislature and, I guess, Americans for Prosperity feel diapers of any kind are luxurious and should be taxed that way.
Sally Sandy • Eureka
June 08, 2021 at 03:00AM
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