KANSAS CITY STAR WINS STAYS WINNING TAX BREAKS, INSIDERS CALL OUT EPIC LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION!!!



Today the Kansas City Star was granted tax breaks by City Hall.

KC Biz Journal: "The City Council on Thursday voted 11-2 to approve The Kansas City Star's request for a 15-year extension of a property tax abatement for its downtown printing plant. Council members Jermaine Reed and Cokethea Hill cast the no votes."

Now . . .

From a BRILLIANT BAD-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDER, this one of the most important things ever published on TKC which DOCUMENTS WITH FINANCIAL DATA the largest daily newspaper in Kansas City bought and paid for by local government at the expense of taxpayers and without a public vote. Notice that TKC doesn't advocate calling the Feds on anybody because I don't want the tables turned on me and to end up in Guantanamo Bay just because I read Al Jazeera America sometimes to see if they report any sightings of Osama's ghost. But I digress . . . A person far more informed than TKC wrote this and it's a BRILLIANT MUST READ for anybody who cares about Kansas City and local media . . .

Checkit:

The more you think about it, the more it stinks

Is it time to call the FBI?

There is no concrete evidence of corruption in our City. At least not yet. There is, however, a great deal of circumstantial evidence.

And perhaps there is no public corruption taking place with our leaders in Jackson County or our Mayor and City Council when it comes to the KC Stars Oak Street Property. Perhaps our Newspaper has not tried to corrupt any public officials.

However, there is the appearance of impropriety, especially in light of the Star's Oak Street building being built for $200,000,000, and then, 10 years later, seeing Jackson County place the market value of that building at $42,000,000 last year and $22,000,000 this year.

That 89% reduction in market value means, logically enough, that the Stars taxes would be down by the exact same amount, IF THEY WERE ACTUALLY PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE. They are not.

You see, the city has already given the Star a tax-break from the $5,000,000 a year they should have paid over the last decade. That's $50,000,00.00 the city said they didn't need.

My water and sewer bills, as well as the city's infrastructure, begs to differ with that opinion.

Here's a few curious observations:

Kansas City's commercial real estate market is experiencing a mini-boom and yet, the Star's property's value was dropped by nearly 50% in 2015.

Hmmm. I wonder if any other 10 year old commercial buildings saw this sort of reduction?

Had the Star not received a nearly 50% drop in the value of their current building from 2014 to 2015, their taxes WOULD have been about100% higher than the $700,000 they reported they will owe this year.

In 2017, again according to the Star, their taxes should jump to about 1,300,000 or, $2,600,000 annually without the most recent reduction in what the County says their building is worth.

Hmm. I wonder how much it would cost to buy a politician if you stand to save $34,000,000 over the next 15 years.

In rough numbers, the most recent reduction (from 42,000,000 to 22,000,000) is another gift from the city of more than $36,000,000 between now and 2029 versus a total of $2,100,000 they are hoping to be taxed if this next "relief check" is approved by Sly and the gang.

Again, perhaps all of this is all perfectly legal, but before the city continues down this path, I'd like to see some investigation into this $36,000,000.00 tax break.

I'm pretty sure we won't see any hard-hitting reporting from the Kansas City Star about their taxes.

With this kind of money and the stink emanating from the bowels of City Hall and Jackson County , I would not be surprised if a call was not already made to the FBI's public corruption hotline.

That phone number is (855) 527-2847. You may find the FBI's public corruption link here: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/corruption

I'm not saying that I'm calling, but someone should, at least, report this citywide stink to authorities not already bought and paid for.
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Comments

  1. The star is just the Mayor's press sheet now.

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  2. I'm boycotting this blog, but thank you, Tony, for reporting on this. Great journalism.

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  3. Every property owner in Missouri needs to join in a class action. If this is fucking legal then I am living in one fucking corrupt state.

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  4. Is it time to call the FBI? You've got to be kidding us.

    Hey Tony The Star is making fun of you on Twitter right now! Too bad you can't see it!

    #LibelousPieceOfShit or somesuch

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  5. Check out the minimum wage circus over on Alonzo's twitter feed.

    "Mayor: Dont forget the city has a lot on the line as well. Were talking about spending money we dont have, we dont have an enforcement mech."

    Good timing to drown out the Star subsidies deal.

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  6. 916-321-1849 rkimball@mcclatchy, Ryan Kimball, give him a call or send him an email and let him know how you feel. Tell him no matter how many redesigns they do, or community events they host, that people in kc have lost touch with the leaders of the kc star. He is the director of investor relations, and is very influential in the company that owns the kc star. Wouldn't be surprised of he personally returns your call.

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  7. I'd call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 because you morons whine like a bunch of fucking babies.

    CALL THE FBI really takes the cake of stupidity. But have another piece by all means.

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  8. Tony, this is one your best posts ever.

    Now why would a business work so darn hard to DEVALUE their property? Someone far more skilled in real estate should respond, please. It's one thing to lower your property taxes if they are too high, you know, by 20%. But only a potential SELLER of a business, might have a strange reason to completely tank the value. To get in line for dumping a property they really no longer need? Like a goin outta hard copy news bidness sale?

    Let's look down the road, at how the Art Brisbane Glass Castle to Arrogance and Noblesse Oblige might be repurposed. A museum? Another corporate giant that needs a Bilbao sized paperweight of an image?

    Does Donald Trump need a new campaign HQ in the heartland? His ego might just squeeze in there. And he never would pay retail...

    What say you, the appointees of tax appraisal and adjustments? Perhaps we should publish their names and addresses and phone numbers, just like we do on one of those web sites for johns. Tony, you could add a separate site for that.

    And of course, please note, all the City Council actions that are and will be taken before the NEWLY elected take office in August, which is also AFTER the budget is adopted.

    Something stinks. But hey, if you put some Limburger cheese under a glass dome on Grand and let it set out in the hot sun, what else might one expect?

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  9. "Beware the government-media complex" Michael Savage 1994

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  10. Jeez, looks like The Slyster City Star isn't going to cover this.

    We Won!!! We Won!!!

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  11. I thought this was the most important things ever published on TKC.

    http://www.tonyskansascity.com/2012/08/retraction-and-apology-to-mr-louie.html

    baw haw haw

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  12. It's all a scam and the taxpayers once again are the losers.

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  13. I'd call the National Transportation Safety Board. They can tell which highway is the safest to use while you're leaving town.

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  14. The KC(CK)MO political system is corrupt… and dangerously dysfunctional.

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  15. Tony is dead, dead, dead on the fuckin money.

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    Why is Rev Tindall still doling out money from COMbat? Same reason the Jackson County Assessor devalued to ridiculous levels the Star property. The County is woefully mismanaged by Mike Sanders.

    FEC is also a strange place. How much County money do they still get?

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  17. Thank you to the person who posted this information.

    Though very few readers apparently caught the comment which appeared in this space some weeks ago, alluding to an ongoing public corruption investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of MO, or thought it only hinted at the Brittany Burke story which subsequently broke in the news, I'm told that it involves public officials who have not yet been named by any local media.

    There are so many fish to fry in this area, that I'm truly hoping they have cast a large enough net to scoop them all up!

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  18. Well, I called the FBI, but the person who answered was laughing so hard at my reporting of the legal proceedings of a public body she fell off her chair and hurt herself.

    She suggested I grow a pair of balls and stop my girly pussy whining.

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  19. Wow, some the KC Star pumpers are out strong tonight. You can tell by doing any sort of analysis on historical TKC comments. Just so readers of this board can know, the "Missing and Exploited Children", the "I called and FBI laughed", the "National Transportation Safety Board", "Louie Wright apology" comments.

    All of those comments are from KC Star pumpers... just For Your Information. Though anybody who reads this site with ANY regularity, already knows that.

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  20. Mike Sanders is the small catch. It is going deeper. But it is the small fries like Tindal and Nunnelly and FEC that will cut the deals

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  21. I'd call the American Pussy League with your important analysis.

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  22. Why just LOOK at all the Sly-Star sycophants yapping on command all over TKC tonight.

    Good work Tony. I sense they all know their time is 'bout done.....

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  23. Pravda, or course, means "truth," but I'm not surprised readers of TKC knew that!

    I'm calling the CIA, BBC, NFL, KMBC, EOF, B2B, LOL, WTF, BBQ and OMG with this big story!

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  24. If McClatchy is going to crash and burn then who is going to buy a paper? The city?

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  25. Thank you for posting this opinion piece TKC. The person who wrote it is right on the money. This is the stuff the Star would publish if they had any guts.

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  26. It would have to be fact-based for the Star to publish it. Tht's the "problem" you conservatives have with journalism. It's fact-based, and that's rarely good for your arguments. Dan Coffey half-facts are not similarly constrained. But by all means, call the FBI. They should probably keep a couple of you unhinged rage-junkies on the watch list...

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  27. I wonder if the Star is posting the comments in their own defense because they know corporate will read this. And they want the appearance of support for the Star.

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