CHECK THE DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY STREETCAR BALLOT!!!
Take a look the most valuable ballot in modern Kansas City history.
Only the elite 555 have access to it . . . It's rather smooth and might be the most rare accessory within the loop.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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I am one of the 555 and I can't wait to vote No and send it back, notarized of course! I support light rail but this plan is crazy!
nice.
Good for you!
Exactly 6:45pm...exactly how everyone should vote!
Hardly 555 elite. More like 555 who got off video games long enough to request a ballot.
You gotta love TKC's hypocrisy. One day he celebrates a president circumventing our republic's foundation by issuing effectively an executive order that changes our immigration policy while the next day criticizing our City's attempt to follow state election laws that guarantee residents vote for a tax rather than out of town and out of state property owners. The debate is no longer about principles...it's about partisanship and special interests.
Russ, that is a brilliant argument. You, my friend, are a fucking GENIUS!
Attack the messenger when you can't win on message.
Elite? Seriously? I live downtown, requested my ballot and will be voting - NO. But to say those voting are "elite" is way off-base. We are the 555 who work, PAY TAXES (unlike a certain company, who will remain unnamed in this post) and some of whom are tired of stale City Hall plans and ideas funded on our backs. If I thought for a minute the unnamed company (which will reap the benefit, if there is any benefit) was paying its fair share for this street car system my vote might be "yes." But as it stands - NO.
And I will give another example of the inequity of this plan - I live downtown and am a member of a downtown church, St Mary's, that is on the far edge of the area encompassed by the plan (13th and Holmes). This church, literally operating on a shoestring budget, WILL BE CHARGED an assessment for this system even though it will receive absolutely no benefit. Repeat: none. But again, the (unnamed company) operating the P&L, who will be the big winner, if there is a winner, walks away unscathed and untaxed. Where is the equity in this scenario? That's correct: there is none.
Ha, I thought St Mary's was "progressive church serving the urban core". People in the urban core use transit.
What benefit do we, the taxpayers, receive from your church?
This a vote on the whether or not to establish the taxing district, not on the steetcar plan.
1245: You're taxes don't pay for my church. If you want a benefit (secular) show up on Saturday for a free hot lunch or free bag of groceries, NONE of which are paid for by tax dollars. Or show up (on Sunday) for a spiritual benefit, again, NONE of which is paid for by tax money. Also, I hardly believe the Fri/Sat "suburban" partiers using the toy train are coming back downtown on Sunday morning for church. Again, if Cordish (shocker: the company now named) paid it's fair share, I'd have no objection to the "taxing district."
12:46 I get it. I know what's going on. Cordish needs to be part of the taxing district AND be made to pay it's fair share.
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