JEFFERSON CITY — For many Missouri residents, the checks came in comparatively small amounts — perhaps $20 or so. But over the course of several years, Missouri mailed nearly $1 billion of those special refund checks to millions of state taxpayers — all because of the anti-tax passion of one southwest Missouri man.
UPDATE: Mel Hancock, author of tax amendment in Missouri, dies
Monday, November 7, 2011 | 9:09 p.m. CST;
updated 11:41 p.m. CST, Monday, November 7, 2011
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