TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! SUNDAY SPECIAL: KANSAS CITY HEAVIES HAVE ANOTHER SALES TAX PLANNED!!!
Some of the most KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDERS are thinking about motive when it comes to recent opposition to Question 1. Luckily, the search for a culprit reveals something exceptionally troubling.
We'll get to that in a second, but here's a better place to start . . .
Local plebs and the rubes who still think Democracy works aren't expecting more taxes considering the fragile U.S. economy and the rising cost of snack cakes BUT cowtown power players already have a plan for a new tax in place . . .
To wit . . .
THE MOST KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDERS CONFIRM THAT THE HEAVIES ARE PREPARING TO PUSH AN UPCOMING MISSOURI SALES TAX FOR BRIDGE, STREET AND HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR!!!
Like it or not, The Heavies are one of the dominant political forces in this town and if they come at this proposed sales tax full force . . . There's almost nobody who can stand in their way.
And that's why recent contributions to the fight against Question 1 have Kansas City Insiders a bit concerned.
The Heavies have the motive to implode any tax that stands in the way of what will be a windfall for their biz if Missouri actually starts repairing bridges and roads . . .
After all, at some point people are going to get tired of all these taxes and that day might be coming sooner than any politico wants to believe . . .
However . . . There are a few other motives out there . . .
HCA might also have an interest in making sure Question 1 is stillborn . . .
The Midwest Medical Industrial Complex Juggernaut might want to avoid this mess and let politicos come up with a better profit sharing plant . . .
Also . . .
KU Med is suspected of wanting to pull the plug on Question 1 . . . Of course they support it in theory and on paper . . . But KU Med Center advocates and associates might fear any effort at research might challenge the exponential growth of the mega-facility hosting Rock Chalk doctors and nurses . . .
Whatever the case . . .
The diagnosis is clear . . .
Another sales tax in the works soon might be a hard pill to swallow for voters already suffering from an overdose of local levies.
Developing . . .
After Jeff Roe trash talked on that conference call about the other consultants and Sanders, it is pretty clear that Question 1 is doomed. Roe's action was clearly that of a big rat leaving a sinking ship.
ReplyDeleteA transportation tax would be a better use of the money. It would hire more people, and provide useful public assets that everyone could use for a long time.
ReplyDeleteThe heavies need to learn how to make espressos, or goofy websites so they can survive on crumbs in the new creative class economy.
ReplyDeleteNovelty socks? Our fiber head start has yielded the bountiful harvest of fucking novelty socks?
ReplyDeleteThe stench of failure is great with this one.
KU med is cutting nurses' pay and benefits, while paying millions to hang "official provider" banners and give water to drunks at Arrowhead, Kauffman and the speedway.
ReplyDeleteTheir motives are clear...profit at any cost.
Socks will provide life-saving cures.
ReplyDelete10:10 the streetcar will fix the schools
ReplyDeleteHNTB $$$$$!!!!
ReplyDeleteDetroit, where as Reuters reports, the recovery to pensioners, retirees and all other unsecured creditors will be.... 16 cents on the dollar.
ReplyDeleteWonder how we'll end up here in CK.
Cutthroat city. heavies don't mind sending sick kids down the river I guess.
ReplyDeleteWe already pay taxes for infrastructure! Do they really think we are that stupid?!
ReplyDeleteIf you look at all revolutions throughout history, they have been preceded by heavy taxation. Tax attorney and historian Charles Adams has written series of book, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes (to name one), on the subject of the destructiveness of taxation. The Federal and state governments are working on the idea of putting black boxes in our cars to tax the millage we drive. See for yourself: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-roads-black-boxes-20131027,0,6090226.story#axzz2iwpfxKXA . I am no socialist so I will not go off on a rant about the 1% not paying their fair share but those with the power should realize that the mark of a successful parasite is not to kill your host and there is a fine line between being a symbiot and a parasite. Toward the fall of Rome the Romans feared the barbarian they did not know less than the tax collector they did know. Maybe it is time for us peasants to say no with votes and not with pitchforks. The ultimate way to vote is with your feet and that is what happened to Detroit.
ReplyDeleteAs we look at all the sales tax initiatives on the ballot and the toy train, let us not forget that the same people have an airport they want to sell us. What is good for the Kemper banks, J. E. Dunn Construction, HTNB and the other assorted construction and engineering contractors is not good for Kansas City. Crony capitalism is not capitalism but socialism for the rich. The crony capitalist hates the free market as much as any Marxist.
I don't often vote but when I do, I vote no. Stay pissed off my friends.
ReplyDeleteIf course not one visionary around when we were building Science City, worthless gun microphones, 18th & Vine, Stadiums, Red Light Cams, the Salad Bowl, a Police Lab or a Train. Again KC infrastructure, that the tax payers actually use, is pushed to the bottom of the list and if you want anything other than pet projects you have to pay extra. Mark another one up for the city hype masters and zero for the dumb ass citizens of Kansas City. Lets skip the research lab and spend THAT 800 million on sewer and streets.
ReplyDeleteHow bout' those Chiefs! Rah!!!
ReplyDeleteNo doubt Dunn Construction will donate even more $$$ to a question that will benefit their bottom line, but will Don Hall try to bribe all of us with another $75,000?
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