Emily Manley, Missouri Chief Capitol reporter for FOX 2, joins Michael Calhoun to discuss the tax plans by Missouri’s gubernatorial candidates, namely Jay Ashcroft and Bill Eigel, who want to eliminate Missouri’s income tax.

House Minority Leader Crystal Quade of Springfield, a Democrat running for governor, said Missouri’s current tax system needs reform, but “trusting the same people who thought up the failed Brownback debacle in Kansas would be laughable if the stakes for hardworking Missouri families weren’t so dire.”

Another candidate in the Democratic primary, businessman Mike Hamra of Springfield, sounded a similar note:

“This is a strategy for earning Grover Norquist’s support and funding in the primary, not a realistic plan for moving Missouri forward. Kansas tried this experiment a decade ago with disastrous results – a budget crisis, schools closing weeks early, multiple credit downgrades, and slowed economic growth.”