Local newsrooms are full of scumbags: Media blackout on plan to increase Kansas City earnings tax demonstrates middle class bias of most reporters!!!

There is an effort underway to increase Kansas City's earnings tax, it's only a matter of time before the public discovers the plan already in the works. TKC reported it first.

One of my reporter buddies who constantly tips me about local newsroom gossip told me that my EXCLUSIVE STORY (!!!) yesterday made waves with one of his favorite female newsies. Timid broad that she is, she asked permission to follow-up on the news TKC broke with actual (useless) quotes and research. Her assignment editor told her: "You don't want to pay higher taxes do you?" and then gave her some pointless event to cover related to traffic or a house fire.

Unfortunately, local news organizations don't like reporting tax increases in much the same way that they shy away from covering bad economic news in general or crime in minority neighborhoods - It's depressing, people don't like watching it and the audience makes its feelings known by switching the channel. It's always safer to broadcast perv stories or investigate the important difference between Tex-Mex vs. Authentic Mexican cuisine (actual local news item yesterday).

Anyhoo . . . The fact that the media isn't too curious about the issue is one of the many signs that they can't relate to any struggle not directly impacting the middle-class and their mostly suburban audience.

Still, the plan to increase the earnings tax is solid because it's a progressive tax and the only way to make the affluent suburbanites working in this town PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!!!

Opponents of the tax increase are probably some of the most immoral people in the Kansas City area, here's why:

JoCo and over-privileged people in KC don't want any of the white elephants cut, they are raising hell over proposed cutbacks to The Zoo, all of the empty museums and Liberty Memorial.

These are the same JoCo people who want Kansas City and Jackson County to pay for the Stadiums but would reject a bi-state increase overwhelmingly - They did last time around.

Rather than skimp on any of this town's amenities - WHICH THEY DON'T PAY FOR - JoCo and suburbanites from around the area want the people of Kansas City to lose out on services that would undoubtedly decline if Funkhouser carries out his massive City Hall purge.

Put simply, this is yet another way in which JoCo people and suburbanites want Kansas City to pay for their entertainment . . . This time at the cost of City Hall jobs. Of course, more affluent people in Kansas City proper are also averse to paying higher taxes because they would be paying more and they are seldom reliant on the same City Services which are more frequently doled out to po'folk.

The answer to this dilemma that the local media has disseminated is either silence or straight out contempt.

Yael T. Abouhalkah is nothing more than Funkhouser's cheerleader at The Star and he not only casually dismisses the impending cuts to City services and THE PEOPLE WHO MIGHT LOSE THEIR JOBS at City Hall but also doesn't mention an earnings tax increase which is the most effective and immediate solution to the current budget crunch.

Similarly, Channel 9 has went on record in opposition to any tax increase.

The bias here is obvious and City Hall employees, po'folk and people relying on City Services will predictably suffer the most at the hands of corporate media. In this situation, as in most others, the tenure of Mayor Funkhouser has revealed that he was never serious about his campaign promises and he has consistently worked against Kansas City's poor and minority communities in order to support his popularity in the suburbs while maintaining the status quo.