St. Louis Public Radio: Proposition 1, a St. Louis ballot measure, regarding MetroLink, urban development funding

Newhouse cited a statistic from the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which found that the bottom 20 percent of income earners in the state of Missouri pay 5.8 percent of their annual income in sales tax. “You want these people to have access to ride North/South MetroLink to have more opportunity, to get to their jobs/school, why should the burden be on them to fund this? Why not people like Rex Sinquefield or people with higher income fund this?” Read more