We linked and talked a better take on this topic FIVE DAYS AGO and now it's in the Sunday edition of the local newspaper:
GOP lawmaker launches latest attempt to kill KC earnings tax | The Kansas City Star
Kansas City gets more than 40 percent of its general tax revenue from the 1 percent earnings tax. Republican state lawmakers consider it a drag on the state's economy and are once again trying to kill it.
Hahahahaha the end is near.
ReplyDeleteWell by golly we need to give more tax cuts and abatement's to developers and corporations! Especially the out of state ones!
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that without the earnings tax, Sly and his cronies might find it hard to give away TIF money to big corporations, and they would have to pay their fair share.
ReplyDeleteThe failing Star is all over this at the behest of the city.
ReplyDeleteKansas City is such a desirable place to live and work that a penalty against anyone who chooses to live or work here will have no effect whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteOther than gradually but inevitably driving out whatever tax base is left.
The Star is reaching out to former employee Yell Aboohooky for comments.
ReplyDeleteHow many residents use someone else's address to get around that dumb tax ? I know several.
ReplyDeleteIf the e-tax funds so many vital services in KCMO, then why are 911 callers on hold for 10 minutes and snow covered streets are never sufficiently cleared?
ReplyDeleteKansas City loses thousands of potential residents who move right outside the city border to avoud the earnings tax.
ReplyDeleteIt’s an illegal tax anyway, sLIE uses it to pay his friends with, hell, we can’t even get stripes painted on the effing streets anymore.
ReplyDeleteSLIE is the king of fails, worse mayor ever, even funkytown was better than this loser.
KCMO needs to start requiring a business license for all of the drug dealers. Then place a 50% user and 50% dealer tax on all of the illegal drugs. At the same time tax the heck out of all the drugs passing through KCMO.
ReplyDeleteThis is a viable solution for replacing the earnings tax. Hopefully Go4KC notices this solution.
^^^^^ Legalization of recreational marijuana. Stop sending local dollars to Colorado.
ReplyDeleteThe City Council wastes so much money I will vote against the E Tax anytime I can.
ReplyDelete- City funded Grocery Store 3 blocks away from another City subsidized Grocery store.
-Street Car with out a cost for ridership.
- Boards and overhead related to the Jazz Museum.
- 3rd District Council travel expenses related to 18th and Vide and Jazz Museum
- 18th and Vine, $10 million here, $10 million there but who is counting???