What Amendment 5 ad gets wrong about Missouri data centers

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…