State adds funding; no tax increase

To the editor:I could not sit back after reading the column "Spending priorities" by Amy Blouin of the Missouri Budget Project in the June 2 paper. It was such an obvious political attack on conservative lawmakers and not a thoughtful analysis of Missouri's spending priorities like the Gary Rust column she referred to.

Missouri is spending record amounts on classrooms, higher education and even health care. And this was all done without a tax increase. In fact, the legislature actually cut taxes by ending the tax on Social Security benefits earned by senior citizens.

The criticism of Blouin and the Missouri Budget Project is nothing more than a political attempt to distract Missourians from the progress happening in our Capitol and across our state.

THOMAS COX, Jackson