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Our call — vote YES
The measure
Amendment 7 is a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It would create a permanent public endowment fund — the Show-Me Prosperity Fund — managed by the state to generate revenue, and use the earnings to eliminate state-imposed taxes when sufficient to replace them.
What YES does
A YES vote creates the constitutionally permanent endowment and commits Missouri to the goal of replacing state taxes with investment earnings once the fund is large enough to do so.
What NO does
A NO vote leaves Missouri's tax system as it is, with no permanent state endowment created in the constitution.
The math
No capitalization amount, funding source schedule, or projected date at which earnings could replace state taxes was published in the measure summary consulted. Critics in Missouri's 2026 voter guides put the implied commitment as high as $267 billion; that figure is a critic's estimate, not a published fiscal note, and is printed here only as attributed commentary, not as the measure's math.
OUR CALL
Our call: YES.
The direction is exactly ours: a state that lives off an endowment's earnings instead of its citizens' paychecks. Alaska's Permanent Fund shows the model can work when principal is protected. We vote YES for the tax-elimination destination — and we say plainly that the legislature owes voters the funding discipline to match, because an endowment raided is a tax deferred, not a tax ended.
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Sources: Missouri Secretary of State, 2026 Ballot Measures (sos.mo.gov/petitions/2026BallotMeasures) — Amendment 7 summary; Act for Missouri, November 3, 2026 Voter Guide (critic estimate).
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
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