[NFBMO] Gubernatorial candidate wants to eliminate personal property taxes, could affect blind pension

[GeneCoulter at Charter.net]

The agency has had several names including

Commission for the Blind
Services to the Blind
Bureau for the Blind
And
Rehabilatation Services for the Blind
The administrative structure has not changed much  as it has been located in the welfare agency as far as I can remember whether that is the Department of Welfare, Division of Family Services or Family Support Division.
Gene

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Subject: Re: [NFBMO] Gubernatorial candidate wants to eliminate personal property taxes, could affect blind pension

I find the phrase "deserving blind" to be rather amusing.

Also, this law makes reference to a "commission for the blind." 

Did Missouri have a Commision for the Blind before RSB?

Regards

Daniel


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Subject: Re: [NFBMO] Gubernatorial candidate wants to eliminate personal property taxes, could affect blind pension

I pasted below the actual law concerning property tax funding the Blind Pension. My read is that all property tax, personal and real, are used to fund the pension.
Gene

 209.130.  Rate of tax to be levied. — There is hereby levied an annual tax of three cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property in the state of Missouri to provide a fund out of which shall be paid the pensions for the deserving blind as herein provided.  The tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner and by the same means as other state taxes are now collected.  The tax, when so collected, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the blind pension fund, out of which fund shall be paid the pension as provided by law.  Any balance remaining in the fund after the payment of the pensions may be appropriated for the adequate support of the commission for the blind, and any balance remaining at the end of the biennium shall be transferred to the distributive public school fund.


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(RSMo 1939 § 9461, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1959 S.B. 86) 

Prior revision: 1929 § 8903 

CROSS REFERENCE: 

Tax for blind pensions, Const. Art. III § 38(a)

8/28/1959


 


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