TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! TRAGIC KANSAS CITY EARNINGS TAX SLOWLY LOSING SUPPORT!!! SHOULD WE KEEP TRYING TO REPEAL IT?!?!
The results of the Kansas City earnings tax renewal are more complex than what has been reported by the mainstream media and signal growing taxpayer frustration among local residents.
To wit . . .
THE EARNINGS TAX LOST SUPPORT FROM THOUSANDS OF VOTERS WHO STAYED AT HOME AND FAILED TO SUPPORT THE CITY HALL E-TAX SLUSH FUND!!!
Here's the data from the Show-Me dudes which confirms previous SCIENTIFIC TKC RESEARCH and analysis . . .
The number of votes in favor of the tax dropped significantly since the last vote. In 2011, nearly 57,000 Kansas Citians cast ballots in favor of the earnings tax; in 2016, that figure dropped by nearly a third to just over 39,000 votes in favor, with turnout down significantly overall.
On the other side of Missouri, STL numbers were much stronger amid a more heated contest . . .
And let's not forget that the Kansas City effort to repeal the earnings tax was supported only by four lousy mailers and some radio ads with no TV commercials, no ground game, no yard signs and only a few low-rent billboards. Meanwhile, Mayor Sly has spent most of this year pitching the E-Tax backed up by millions from a coalition of corporate welfare enthusiasts from the Greater KC Chamber of Commerce along with support from all three international law firms located in Kansas City and engineering giant Burns & Mac.
Billionaire Rex Sinquefield is kind of a red herring when compared with the cadre of crony capitalists pitching in their cash to take on the e-tax.
And all of this begs the question . . .
SHOULD VOTERS GET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ON THE E-TAX GIVEN THAT IT'S SLOWLY LOSING SUPPORT?!?!
The current wave of corporate welfare seems to have turned off a great many voters and now local leaders want to deny the electorate their voice for at least a decade based on a faulty premise that a low turnout election has given them a mandate.
You decide . . .
Sly has always been about keeping people from voting.
ReplyDeleteHe did the same thing with the streetcar.
You won't see any consultant move to fast to push this through. It's a steady paycheck for these guys and that will be KC's downfall. The election results speak for themselves. Time to tell Jeff City as much.
ReplyDeleteStreetcar II - TKC, that is the real test of Mayor Sly's support.
ReplyDeleteIf voting changed things they wouldn't let the public vote.
ReplyDeleteBe another five years before we see another vote on this. A figure I'd like to see is how many people work in Kansas City, who pay this tax but don't live within the city limits. And of those people how many of them would be willing to see the tax still taken from their paycheck?
ReplyDeleteMaybe the answer would be to figure out how a person could register to vote and vote using their phones or computer since it appears everyone has one or the other if not both. This style of voting really couldn't be that hard to do and probably just as secure, as the polling operations running now on election day.
^^^ Absolutely agree. This signals voters growing more disengaged overall. Our elected officials have to do something to find a way to get more people to vote.
ReplyDeleteWE GOTS TO GET THE NIGNOG VOTE A GOIN'!!!
ReplyDeleteThe earnings tax is illegal. It was struck down by the supreme court in other states and KC residents should sue against this double dipping. That's the next battle against the tax. It's against the law.
ReplyDeletee-tax is just another Kc ripoff.
ReplyDeleteWhat's this about another streetcar vote? I very much doubt it. Voters rejected that.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should not allow a streetcar vote for another 10 years? Voters keep saying no to the plan.
@5:55pm
ReplyDeleteWhen you play as fast and loose with taxpayer money as Sly and the gang, the LAST thing you want is for more people to vote, or even to pay much attention to what's really going on.
Just get Sly's tweets, watch in awe of all the grandiose announcements, attend the empty town hall and budget meetings, join the rah rah rallies and ribbon-cuttings, and make believe that even the most basic of municipal services are being provided to you and your neighbors.
But DO NOT pay too much attention, ask too many questions, or be a "nay-sayer", and hurt city hall's feelings.
And DO NOT VOTE.
Just leave it all to Sly and the gang.
What, no crap about tired baby boomer whites, after eating their trendy ramen and kale, crowding our paid-with-blood-money downtown to see an aging rocker while checking their cellphones over their failed portfolios and lack of produce and at risk of being electrocuted by streetcar wires and catching the Zika virus, which by all means is Clearly A Threat?
ReplyDeleteYou're slipping dude.
No shortage of unrelenting bitching here.
ReplyDeleteJebuz Tony, there has to be a better existence than bitching and moaning in order to pander to losers.
And people think immigration is what is bringing this country down........
Carry on. Just like it matters.
7:54: Sorry your boomer parents cut off your support check. Maybe you might consider, like, getting a job, dude, like your boomer parents did when they were your age.
ReplyDeleteThere is no sense trying to do anything locally when the dumb ass protesters are more worried about Donald Trump than the crooks right here. KC was in the state bill and the gutless Republicans sat there in Jeff City and let Slime James whine his way out of it. It could be stopped easily but KC has the lasiest and most scruple lacking white people this side of Mississippi
ReplyDeleteLeave it to the deep thinkers at Show Me, as well as Tony and his commenters, to attempt to turn a nearly 4-to-1 shellacking at the polls into a victory.
ReplyDeleteFace it. This tax is wildly popular everywhere except Show Me and TKC. And the political clout of both to change that is the equivalent of changing the sea level by throwing a cup of water into the ocean.