What Amendment 5 ad gets wrong about Missouri data centers

What misleading A5 ad gets wrong about taxes and data centers

There’s a television ad making the rounds in support of Missouri Amendment 5, the upcoming ballot measure that would allow the Legislature to gradually eliminate the state income tax while raising sales taxes. The ad would like you to be…

Sen. Eric Schmitt Endorses Amendment 5 to Eliminate Missouri Income Tax - Americans for Tax Reform

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt is throwing his support behind Amendment 5, a constitutional amendment proposal to phase out Missouri’s income tax and supercharge the state’s economic prosperity. Voters will have an opportunity make Missouri the next zero-income-tax state and lower the overall tax burden during the primary election on August 4. Now a U.S. Senator, Eric Schmitt began his political career in the Missouri legislature, where he champi…

What Amendment 5 ad gets wrong about Missouri data centers

Interior of a modern data center (Getty Images). There’s a television ad making the rounds for Amendment 5, and it would like you to be angry at a hum. “That hum is the sound of big tech making money from online gambling, from porn,” a narrator says over footage of server racks. Data centers, the ad goes on, are “money machines making millions every minute,” shielded by a “1917 tax code” that lets them “get away tax free.” Pass Amendment 5, th…