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Know Your Ballot: Amendment 2 Would Provide Tax Breaks for POW's

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Constitutional Amendment 2 on the November ballot would provide property tax breaks for disabled P-O-W's.

The measure cleared the House and the Senate in 2009 without a single dissenting vote.

However, founder of the P-O-W Network, Mary Schantag says she thinks this type of benefit will encourage a higher number of P-O-W impersonators, while Clark says the process to receive benefits is hard to fake.

"It's an extensive evaluation and very few who actually claim that status are awarded benefits for it," Clark said.

Clark says he has been one of the few that the Missouri Veterans Administration has granted these benefits, but many have not.

From Jefferson City I'm Becky May.