Platte County Charity Tax Reconsidered

As election season approaches we wanted to share insight on a down-ballot trend and apt criticism.

Agree or disagree . . . We appreciate our bloggy colleagues offering insight into a measure that will likely escape a great deal of mainstream coverage . . . Check-it: 

"This November, Platte County voters will decide on whether to implement a quarter-cent sales tax in the county to support a new community children’s services fund. The tax was placed on a ballot last week by a judge after the election board, for reasons that are unclear, hesitated to put the item on the ballot.

"Everyone is for this, right? I mean, who can be against supporting kids?

"I’m all for supporting kids. I have three of them. What I don’t support is abusing the political process to turn voluntary charitable giving into mandated taxation and taking the wonderful aims of philanthropy and politicizing them."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Show-Me Blog: Politicizing Charity Is Dangerous