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Article Excerpt
When the British placed a tax on newspaper nameplates in the days of colonial journalism, they trampled on a constituency that could fight back and be heard. A revolution followed.
That lesson seemed to be lost on Republicans in the Missouri House of Representatives on April 14, when they approved by 74-72 a retaliatory amendment aimed at the state's two biggest newspapers that have been critical of actions in the statehouse.
Both weeklies and dailies across Missouri blasted Republicans in the statehouse after the vote to prohibit the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from purchasing--without paying sales tax--such items as newsprint, ink, computers, machinery and newspaper production equipment. Every newspaper in the state is exempt from sales tax on these items but the bill was aimed only at newspapers with daily circulations of more than 200,000--in order words, the Star and the Post.
The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Richard Byrd, R-Kirkwood, appeared to especially target the Post which published a Sunday, April 11, editorial critical...
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