DELAYED!!! LAME DUCK MAYOR SLY STAYS LOSING UNPOPULAR KANSAS CITY PRE-K SALES TAX AFTER PUSH BACK!!!
The tenure of Mayor Sly James has been dominated by series of a relentless series of tax increases imposed on Kansas City residents but as the conclusion of his term draws near he is now powerless to push forward his agenda.
Accordingly . . .
KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY ADMITS DEFEAT AND STALLS HIS PRE-K SALES SCHEME FOLLOWING INTENSE OPPOSITION REPORTED FIRST ON TKC!!!
Last month our blog community was FIRST to publish deets on EXCLUSIVE polling which revealed widespread resistance to the new tax.
And earlier this week our KICK-ASS BLOG COMMUNITY WAS FIRST to break news of widespread urban core opposition to a regressive sales tax imposed on the inner-city.
Today's presser from the City Hall honcho claims to delay the effort that will most likely be gracefully abandoned and forgotten by the public . . .
Mayor James announces delay in pre-K initiative
Deets:
"Kansas City Mayor Sly James announced Friday morning he will delay putting a pre-K sales tax initiative on the ballot until the April election, rather than November.
"The mayor had championed the proposal for the three-eighths-cent sales tax that would generate $30 million per year for pre-K assistance earlier in the week. There had been pushback on the proposed plan."
The Mayor's Statement on his defeat:
"Unfortunately, this conversation over our pre-K plan has become all about the agendas of adults, and not about the needs of our children. So rather than allow the importance of a child’s education to get lost in an increasingly acrimonious political environment, we will instead step back, invite even more conversations, and let April voters hear the arguments and decide for themselves."
Updated Links:
KCUR: Citing 'Acrimonious' Political Environment, Kansas City's Mayor Tables Pre-K For April Ballot
KMBC: Kansas City early childhood tax vote delayed until April
Fox4: Metro educators, organizations stress importance of preschool education
To be fair, the Mayor deserves credit for taking a hint and dropping his high tax crusade that offered a limited benefit to the students he wanted to help.
Even better . . .
As midterm elections draw near, we notice urban core, middle-class and suburban residents united in their weariness of higher taxes and empty promises. Nevertheless, concerns closer to home like higher taxes, stagnant wages, healthcare and PRACTICAL suggestions for improving education seem to be dominating the minds of the electorate. As much as there's a distaste for the current Twitter hateration that dominates the political discourse, it's clear that plain talk trumps more polished efforts to maintain the status quo. Candidates and political parties who speak to rampant taxpayer fatigue and distrust of politics as usual will likely earn a boost as voters seem less concerned with partisan grudge matches than most pundits realize.
Developing . . .
Finally some good news for Kansas City. This was a bridge too far and would've have hurt families far more than it helped.
ReplyDeleteI always hear how Mayor James doesn't have the support of "his own" community but that's not really true and shows how closed minded a lot of voter are. The Mayor's community is lawyers, developers and business leaders. Those are the people he really works for. Those people who were really watching this saw how even the schools didn't want this tax. Glad that this is now history, really surprised Sly was embarrassed so publicly.
DeleteIf the mayor wants to get back in the good graces of the voters, he should start doing his job and focus on crime and putting more officers on the street. That would help more than just another slush fund.
DeleteBetween the push back on higher sales taxes, transparency on the airport, accountability on crime issues and transparency on incentive use, its been the black community of KC leading the charge against Sly. A lot of the racists on the blog like to think blacks support Sly simply because he is black. Skinfolk aint your kinfolk. It should be very clear at this point they don't.
ReplyDeleteA very good point.
DeleteCongratulations, you've made life harder and provided less support for some of the youngest residents of KC. That's not really an accomplishment you should peddle around. This was an honest effort to give students a head start with better support and resources. The Mayor was right when he said that adult drama was really the resistance to this vote. Sly James is looking out for students when a lot of others are just seeking a political victory. If you really look at who supported this, educators on the front lines were excited about getting more people involved in funding pre-K.
ReplyDeleteThe other challenge that must be made is that this vote will be abandoned. There are some who think so but I have faith in the mayor and I believe what we'll see is an even better plan going forward with more support from the schools and more community partners. If you look at what that Mayor is doing, it's a benefit to all people of KC and people who really want to make this city best know that!
^^^^^ The mayor should learn his lesson.
DeleteNO NEW TAXES!
Now get back under the desk,Jabba want mouth hug.
DeleteFat Albert could serve Go4KC a shit sandwich and he would beg for seconds. If Go4KC is really Chris Hernandez, how far can he fall before hitting bottom?
DeleteThat's OK when Jason becomes Mayor he can raise taxes no big deal.....
ReplyDeleteGo4KC, you miserable sycophant. As a former school board member and life-time advocate for children, IMHO, a pre-k program should be managed thru educators and school districts.
ReplyDeleteSly's bizarre plan would have created a quasi-private group that provided a life-time career for Sly to mismanage millions for his benefit and your future career.
You should impale yourself on your twisted quill pen.
Pre K is taught at home, by Mothers and Fathers.
ReplyDelete^^^WINNER^^^!!!
DeleteSimple and succinct, yet the best post on TKC today.
DeleteAs soon as this big assed house in Hyde park sells, I am soooooooo out of this corrupt city.
ReplyDeleteSly is as unpopular as he is fat. He is very, very fat. FATFATFAT.
ReplyDeleteThis still isn't dead yet. It will be back in april and that sounds even more dangerous with kander on the ballot who would try to sell it.
ReplyDeleteIn Missouri pre-k takes up to age 15.
ReplyDeleteHey go4kc here is some real talk for you. KCMO could spend $65,000 per student in the school district and you will still have the same problems. It’s the culture of the community. You could make it rain with money on the KCMO school district all day long and nothing will change.
ReplyDeleteWhy not just get all the Welfare mommas on a schedule and have the city pick up the little cash cows every 11 months and take them to a camp where they can be raised by the city until their illiterate asses can get their own Welfare check and go buy their first gun ?
ReplyDelete2:01 they already spend twice as much on kcsd thugs as any school district in the metro, still not fully accredited for how many decades now? Ranked one of the worst school districts in the nation, probably 6th worse just like we are 6th worse for murder
ReplyDeleteInstead of taxing the poor and middle class to death in November, let's wait until April and then it will be ok.
ReplyDeleteGo4KC says "This was an honest effort to give students a head start with better support and resources." Thanks for the reference to Head Start, which has conclusively been shown to have no lasting effect on children who participate in that boondoggle. And yet it is a government program and therefore immortal. Its only use is to suck up tax dollars and distribute them to favored cronies.
ReplyDeleteA tax funded Pre-K program would be another Head Start. Sounds good, but worthless, costly and forever.
Freudian Slip Go4KC says...
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, you've made life harder and provided less support for some of the youngest residents of KC. That's not really an accomplishment you should peddle around. Just because we've done the same thing by taking money from schools and libraries to give to developers to provide millennials with subsidized housing and other assorted goodies. This was an honest effort to replace the money we've stolen from schools to impose yet another regressive sales tax to give students a head start with better support and resources. The Mayor was right when he pouted about not getting support from the schools, and he's learning from our esteemed president how to deflect blame and claim that adult drama was really the resistance to this vote. How dare anyone question our mayor's motives? Sly James is looking out for students when a lot of others are just seeking a political victory. See--I'm getting pretty good at Trumpian methods, too. If you really look at who supported this, educators on the front lines were excited about getting more people involved in funding pre-K as well as developers who were hoping this would shut up critics of tax incentives by allowing people to pay more sales tax to support schools, which would not need support if their funds were not being stolen.
The other challenge that must be made is that this vote will be justifiably abandoned. There are some who think so but I have faith in the mayor and I believe what we'll see is an even better plan going forward with more support from the schools and more community partners, and I also believe that subsidized apartments for the wealthy and the streetcar will bring rainbows, unicorns and another 25 million tourists to Kansas City. If you look at what that Mayor is doing, it's a benefit to all people of KC and people who really want to make this city best know that! Of course, as in George Orwell's Animal Farm, it will bring more benefits to some than others.
The city should not be in the business of trying to do what the school district should be doing.
ReplyDeleteCity government is not even doing mediocre at their job so just imagine what would happen to the schools with city interference. If the school district wants the sales tax let them push for it and ensure they get the money and not some mayoral slush fund.
As mentioned before the schools would have the funds if the mayor had not funneled the funds off to developers.
11:40 Exactly!
ReplyDeleteAlso the reason why it doesn't happen.
Most KCMO parents didn't get any sort of education, how do you expect them to teach their children?
Still, better early childhood education is needed. I don't trust KCPS to handle it, though.
Go4KC spews that TKC posters offers no solutions so evidently GO4KC did not read the comments to this TKC post.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.tonyskansascity.com/2018/08/tkc-exclusive-question-despite-queer.html
The 8th comment posted by DeBergerac specifies a viable solution to the pre-K funding iniative and it does not require any type of tax. Oops sorry, this solution does not meet the current narrative from city hall.
How is this schmuck still in office? Is KCMO Mayor such an undesirable job that he is the only person that will do it? There has to be someone with more than 2 brain cells willing to do something.
ReplyDeletesLIE doesn’t own property or have to pay taxes on vehicles in killa shitty so he doesn’t care how much the taxes are, besides he’s a wealthy lawyer remember
ReplyDeleteHe doesnt pay the taxes he does owe either
Delete4:27 Look at at your police dept, it’s so screwed up because of sLIE’s interference, don’t forget he’s on the police board
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, back in the hood where these ungrateful bastards live, murder #83 has happened at 33rd and wabash, the homies are getting serious with the murdering!
ReplyDeleteSlie's pre-K school program would not have prevented the murder.
ReplyDeletePre-K - it was called child care when my kid was old enough, and I had to pay for it out of my meager check. Fast-forward 25 years and Pre-K was still being paid by the working parents, only it was much more expensive. It's the price we paid for having children. Evidently there are thousands of parents who don't think about expenses when they produce children. The babies, they just come....
ReplyDeleteEvery 10 months or so
Delete11:02 - Lets start with the basics - The city should hire more 911 callers so that the citizens shouldn't have to wait on hold for 10 minuets or more while they watch their loved one die from cardiac arrest while on hold from the very service MOST of our tax dollars GO TOO!! The Emergency services in this city is more than deplorable!! The best chance for survival here is to stay healthy so you wont need to use the 911 system here, once you get older and have more health issues you should move out into the burbs where they actually take this kind of shit seriously!
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