TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY PUSH BACK AGAINST OLD SCHOOL EARNINGS TAX SCARE TACTICS!!!
Check this note from Kansas City voters pushing back against fear mongering aimed at that last remaining group of regular voters in this town — A group that has earned quite a bit of attention in this upcoming low turnout earnings tax campaign.
To wit . . .
CHECK THIS WORD FROM KANSAS CITY ACTIVISTS DECRYING MISPLACED PRIORITIES AND CITY HALL E-TAX SCARE TACTICS SUPPORTED BY DEAD TREE MEDIA!!!
Take a look . . .
CITY HALL THREATENS SENIORS!!!
This last week, City Hall sent out their pundits to threaten senior citizens in an attempt to scare them into voting for extending the earnings tax. How pathetic is this??? Warning seniors of fewer police officers on the streets and the lack of ambulance service if they don’t vote to extend the Earnings Tax.
The pundits said if the earnings tax isn’t renewed, the mayor will have to cut 600 police officers and EMS personnel. He’s well on his way by refusing to fund the Police Department up to full strength. The Police Department asked for $4.2MM to get up to a full complement of patrolmen. The Mayor gave them $1.0MM, so they will be 50 officers short yet we have the Earnings Tax. We have the Earnings Tax and murders are way up over last year. The Earnings Tax doesn’t seem to make any difference. City Hall spends your money on other things like this abatement to the KC Star while raising your water bill 3% and your sewer service by 13%. Then they have the nerve to threaten us. PATHETIC!
Think about this when you go to vote on April 5th. A defeat of the Earnings Tax will force City Hall to better manage our finances. It is sad it has come to this but they don’t seem to be getting the message. We want a government which practices fiscal responsibility in a fair and equitable manner.
Citizens for Responsible Government / Missouri
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Seniors are the only group that has stood up to Sly James and chased him out of Brookside.
ReplyDeleteEtax is a joke but when they ship and haul old people in from welfare retirement homes, you know they are going to fix the vote. It's not about billboard or advertisement. The pro-etax side has the boots on the ground. That's how they'll win it. See the previous post.
ReplyDeleteWe will pass Question One on April 5th
ReplyDeleteWe TOLD YOU so TKC.
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ReplyDeleteTax revenues from all the new development (reported to be $1 billion+) attributed to the streetcar should more than makeup for earnings tax loss.
ReplyDeleteReduced revenue will make City Hall more careful how they spend our dollars;
ReplyDeleteno more streetcar, no more hotels, no more specials deals of friends of City Hall.
The e-tax cost me barely over $1,000 per year but I'd gladly spend ten times that to fight this thing. Our tax and finance situation in KC scares away businesses. Lots of them.
ReplyDeleteNo question Dan Coffey, Head of the No Nothings (CRG), must have inherited a huge amount to own his big house on Loose Park. He obviously did not earn it.
ReplyDeleteIf he was a very successful business man he would know losing 40% of his revenue would devastate his company. But the city government can cover such a loss without devastating their operation ?!?!
If your company greatly overpays its employees, doles out funds to corporate insiders, and overprices its product it might be able to lose 40% of past revenue and actually turn a profit once it is properly managed.
ReplyDeleteSlime James and the cronie posse needs to end.
ReplyDelete3:20: Glad you removed your post, trolley boy. I was going to ask you for proof of your assertion regarding Dan Coffey's "obviously" not earning his house, which, by the way, would have no bearing on the validity of the e-tax even if it were (note the subjunctive) true.
ReplyDeleteOh, I see your post is back. You're not as bright as I thought, and I didn't think you were too bright to begin with.
ReplyDeletePolice killed two this weekend. Does that make the seniors feel safer?
ReplyDeleteIf they were coons it does.
ReplyDeleteLyin' Sly James is meanwhile handing out hundreds of millions in tax break deals to developers. All while complaining about how tight the budget is.
ReplyDeleteThe ghost of Pendergast lives on
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the difference between a TIF and "giving tax money to developers"...I think I'll go rant and rave on the Internet and unknowingly embarrass my simple-minded self! Wonder if there's a safe space to do that, populated by 10 or 15 other total half-wits with unsupervised internet access at the "jobs"?
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