Rupp and Team Kinder Stand Up for Deadbeats and Tax Cheats

Rep. Scott Rupp (R-Wentzville) is standing up for the rights of Missourians to not pay their taxes.

In his latest newsletter, Rupp expresses great concern with the proposal to allow the state to seize delinquent taxes from people's bank accounts.  Gov. Jay Nixon proposed the idea in January, and fellow Republican Sen. Carl Vogel (R-Jefferson City) has said he plans to sponsor legislation to make it happen. Rupp:

Now, instead of closing loopholes in the tax code, or determining a course of action in which the state government actually looks for even more ways to save money, our governor came up with a “big brother” idea. His thought: maybe the Department of Revenue should be able to get into our bank accounts and seize money when taxes go unpaid. Bank seizures are part of the proposed new laws the governor wants to balance his budget on, to the tune of $22 million this year and $49 million in 2012. Somehow I doubt that these new laws will get a warm reception in the Legislature.

Peter Kinder's Chief of Staff Rich AuBuchon has expressed similar concerns about the rights of people who owe back taxes to not pay their taxes.

I'm really not sure what to make of these complaints from the Party of Personal Responsibility. If people owe taxes, they owe taxes.  The Department of Social Services already has the ability to seize money for overdue child support.  Do Rupp and Kinder have similar concerns about the rights of deadbeat parents? 

(And seriously: How warm of a reception does Rupp think "closing loopholes in the tax code" would get in the General Assembly?)