MISSOURI WATCH: GOVERNMENT BY DIBS AND DABS

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Monday, February 20, 1995

Without realizing it, Missourians are wasting millions of dollars by ignoring a simple, cost-effective means of ending the useless expenditure of tax revenue. Each time a constitutional amendment, submitted either by the General Assembly or through the initiative referendum process, is presented to voters, the public must shell out additional tax dollars to fund the process, and while there is absolutely nothing improper about amending the constitution, there comes a time when public interest is least served by this means.

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