{"id":9147,"date":"2025-03-13T05:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2025-03-13T05:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:31:13","slug":"9147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/9147\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Wage Cuts and Tax Cuts – Who Gets Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your voter approved Paid Leave and Minimum Wage law is being attacked. The law was endorsed by the UAW. At the same time the Missouri legislature is passing a tax cut for the wealthiest Missourians<\/a>.\u00a0 Wage Cuts for Thee, Tax Cuts for Me should be the theme of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce…<\/p>\n

State Rep. David Tyson Smith, a Columbia Democrat, complained that the inclusion of the corporate and capital gains tax cuts focuses too much of the legislation on the wealthy \u2014 and does so while potentially putting the state\u2019s budget at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone appreciates a tax cut,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cBut why do we have to slide in tax cuts for the rich?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even a Republican has concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just very skewed to the most wealthy people,\u201d state Sen. Mike Cierpiot, a Lee\u2019s Summit Republican, said of the capital gains bill. \u201cThe 8,000 wealthiest families (in Missouri) will get more than half of the benefit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

KY3 is reporting that the Missouri Supreme Court weighs whether to overturn new paid sick leave and minimum wage requirements passed by voters in November<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey present zero evidence that any of the claim bearers had any effect on the election, let alone an outcome-determinative effect,\u201d said Loretta Haggard, a lawyer for the defendants. However, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry has a contingency plan for its<\/p>\n

However, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry has a contingency plan for its fight against Prop A.\u00a0A bill<\/a>\u00a0that would stop the paid sick leave part of Prop A from going into effect needs only one more vote to pass out of the Missouri House.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you are tired of wage cuts for working Missourians and tax cuts for the rich you can find your State Representative t share your feelings here –\u00a0https:\/\/house.mo.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Your State Senator can be found here –\u00a0https:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/legislookup\/default<\/a><\/p>\n

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Your voter approved Paid Leave and Minimum Wage law is being attacked. The law was endorsed by the UAW. At the same time the Missouri legislature is passing a tax cut for the wealthiest Missourians.\u00a0 Wage Cuts for Thee, Tax Cuts for Me should be the theme of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce… State Rep. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96,263,306],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","tag-minimum-wage","tag-paid-leave","tag-prop-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9151,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}