If you awoke from a 10-year coma and were only shown statewide Republican office seeker commercials, you would probably think that we now elect our military. I swear that if I see one more state officeholder shooting a gun I’m going to go completely insane. We get it. You like guns and more importantly want to relate to people that support guns, but if you’re the Missouri Attorney General or Missouri Secretary of State, you’re not going to war for us, you’re going to run an administrative office, which probably doesn’t even allow guns on the premises. It’s got paper clips, staplers and three-ring binders, not guns.
I’m all for you shooting and having all the guns you want but I’d be more impressed if you showed me how you work a file folder or laptop.
I bought a shower door at Menard’s in Platte County this weekend and the sales tax was over $85, pre new jail tax. That is insane. Whenever you are not depressed enough, go take a look at the State of Missouri sales tax chart that is within an interactive search database. You can use an address search to figure out the amount of tax at each government entity in the state and it is crazy how high and how many entities have now attached themselves to purchases of goods through sales taxes.
Honestly, if you awake from a 10-year coma Republican television commercials seem like cruel punishment and might make you choose to go back to the coma. Would be a tough choice probably.
The only thing that saves Democrats from airing as dumb commercials is that none of them can get elected to statewide office in Missouri, so there’s that.
Joe Biden announced he’s not fit to run for office and within a week of that announcement, announced plans to basically change 250+ years of government based on the separation of powers.
Remind me again which party is the threat to democracy. He should probably just hang out at Camp David for 100 days and sit the rest of this thing out.
When did shower doors become $900? Was that a COVID thing? Biden? Trump? Who made this a thing? Hopefully, the Missouri Senate can eventually pass a tax that freezes the tax on shower doors for senior citizens, which would be helpful legislation. Hate to see old, rich people pay taxes on shower doors when young people could surely shoulder that burden. If not shower doors, at least maybe those walk-in tubs could be exempted, I assume that is the next step for me. Call or text your senator.
According to my research, the sales tax at Menard’s off Highway 152 is 8.725% with 4.225 going to Jefferson City and the State of Missouri, presumably dumped in the Missouri River, 3.250% to the City of Kansas City that I assume goes to bike lanes on Truman Road and Street Cars and then 1.25% to Platte County that goes to replacing vent covers in the jail or something along those lines.
That makes me feel better about my purchase. Carry on.
(Guy Speckman will be in a mild coma and is not reachable until late November)
