Irresponsible E-Tax Repeal Advocates Want To Make Kansas City Homeless!!!

I once thought liberals were being mean when then constantly attacked E. Thomas McClanahan for his right-leaning views. Now I realize they were being far too nice.

This morning, McLanahan posted one of the most ridiculous ideas to replace the E-tax based on nothing more than a crackpot theory that has virtually no basis in reality. Basically, he wants to replace the E-Tax with a Land Tax.

"A land tax would encourage investment. Property owners would be penalized for hoarding acreage and doing nothing. For example, speculators who own parking lots downtown — where land taxes would be highest — would have to develop their parcels or sell them to entrepreneurs capable of putting up profitable buildings and realizing the full economic potential of the location."

Even moreso than the E-tax this kind of nitwit thinking would chase business away from Kansas City in droves . . . Even worse, similar theoretical economic discourse against the E-tax is equally impractical. It's all based on "IF/THEN" reasoning that risks hundreds of millions worth of funding from a City that already can't pay its bills.

LIKE THE VAST MAJORITY OF CONSERVATIVE/REACTIONARY GRASSROOTS TEABAG SENTIMENT - PLANS TO ELIMINATE THE E-TAX HAVE NO BASIS IN REALITY AND INSTEAD RELY ONLY ON THE (SELF) RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION OF MIDDLE-CLASS AMATEUR ECONOMISTS!!!

Suggestions to replace the money or simply go without (police, water, ambulance and fire) services are nearly as sophomoric and amateur as the stuff that Sarah Palin comes up with . . . If this is the level of intellect of Conservatives in the United States than the ascendancy of Obama to the Presidency shouldn't really be a surprise.

Brief aside . . . As for the complaints from out-0f-towners forced to pay the E-tax: So what? That's simply an incentive to live within City Limits. Cries of "taxation without representation" don't make sense because the option exists to take part in all the glory that is KC proper but interlopers who take advantage of City Services and Entertainment funded by the people of Kansas City simply want another free ride.

Finally, half baked plans like the one touted by McClanahan mostly ignore the fact that land, property and any kind of increased burden on the people who reside in Kansas City will put a great many people out of their homes. Tragically, increasing regressive taxes that take their toll on local po'folk is the only answer coming from greedy, crybaby E-Tax detractors.