Mississippi River Bridge Toodleoo
NOTE: A conflict between the legislatures of the states of Missouri and Illinois over how to pay for a new bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis has been heating up over the past few months. Missouri wants to create a toll bridge and stick it to Illinoisans who have to cross the river to commute to work in St. Louis daily. This Illinois resident thinks it's unfair and that Missouri has the money but not the guts to use tax dollars to pay for a crucial American crossroad. Illinois already has allocated the funds to get a federal match while Missouri won't even negotiate.
So he wrote the...
So he wrote the...
MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE TOODLEOO
As a geographical undesirable (GU) from Illinois, I have personally experienced the social conceit and undeserved arrogance that Missouri legislators and some of its so-called civic leaders dump on people from anywhere else. My answer when asked where I went to high school leaves most Missourians with a typical blank expression on their faces. No, I’m not from the Show Me State. I’m from the much bigger, richer and more sophisticated Land of Lincoln, so stow the Confederate war flag in the back of your beat up pickup and listen up.
Lately the hillbillies in the Missouri legislature have been trying to stiff the residents of my great state by demanding a toll to cross the river from Illinois into Missourah or Missouree! Perhaps their third-world education system failed them when it comes to economics or sociology. Let me help you out a little.
Illinoisans already pay our share of taxes in your backward state and we don’t intend to pay any more for nothing. You see, about 100,000 of us work in St. Louis City and County. For that privilege we are forced to pay a one-percent “Head Tax” by the city, an income tax in Missouri where we earn our living, an income tax in Illinois if our spouses work here, federal taxes on both, and local sales taxes. What? Do you think we drive back to Illinois for lunch everyday?
The state of Missouri even taxes your newspapers. So much for your claim to fame as a low-tax state!
Don’t even get me started on politics in Jefferson City. Central Missouri%
As a geographical undesirable (GU) from Illinois, I have personally experienced the social conceit and undeserved arrogance that Missouri legislators and some of its so-called civic leaders dump on people from anywhere else. My answer when asked where I went to high school leaves most Missourians with a typical blank expression on their faces. No, I’m not from the Show Me State. I’m from the much bigger, richer and more sophisticated Land of Lincoln, so stow the Confederate war flag in the back of your beat up pickup and listen up.
Lately the hillbillies in the Missouri legislature have been trying to stiff the residents of my great state by demanding a toll to cross the river from Illinois into Missourah or Missouree! Perhaps their third-world education system failed them when it comes to economics or sociology. Let me help you out a little.
Illinoisans already pay our share of taxes in your backward state and we don’t intend to pay any more for nothing. You see, about 100,000 of us work in St. Louis City and County. For that privilege we are forced to pay a one-percent “Head Tax” by the city, an income tax in Missouri where we earn our living, an income tax in Illinois if our spouses work here, federal taxes on both, and local sales taxes. What? Do you think we drive back to Illinois for lunch everyday?
The state of Missouri even taxes your newspapers. So much for your claim to fame as a low-tax state!
Don’t even get me started on politics in Jefferson City. Central Missouri%
posted by Jim | 9:02 PM
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