No new taxes and state constitutional amendments

[Perd Hapley]

In Missouri, we have two state-wide tax measures on the ballot. Proposition A deals with earnings taxes, and Amendment 3 deals with taxes on the sale of real estate.

http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Missouri_Earnings_Tax_Initiative,_Proposition_A_%282010%29
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Missouri_Real_Estate_Taxation,_Amendment_3_%282010%29

My view, at least lately, is that we should do anything and (almost) everything to starve the beast. So I don't have to think about Prop A too much. I'm voting for it. However, I'm voting against the constitutional amendment just because constitutions shouldn't be cluttered with details like that. Were it statutory, like Prop A, I'd vote for it. But not as an amendment.

Your thoughts?

[MechAg94]

The Texas Constitution I believe requires voter approval of new taxes.  I always liked that.  However, the Texas Constitution is full of a bunch of stuff that doesn't belong there.