During this year’s veto session, the legislature attempted and failed to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of House Bill 253, the dangerous and unfair tax experiment which would have benefited the corporations and the rich, while leaving Missouri’s middle class with an average tax cut of $6 while gutting funding for education, infrastructure, and mental health, and increasing taxes on seniors’ prescriptions drugs and college students’ textbooks. We applaud the courageous legislators who stood with Missouri’s working families, seniors and for education instead of voting for an extreme tax bill pushed by wealthy special interests.