Kansas City East Side Tax Revival?!?

Credit where it was due . . .

We were sure somebody was going to go to jail over this one . . . And there was only one major investigation . . . Never mind there's very LITTLE EVIDENCE THAT MILLIONS FROM THIS TAX HELPED ANYBODY . . . 

Here's the holiday ask for more money . . .  

"A decade-long experiment in east side investment is entering a new crucible as Kansas City’s CCED sales tax district heads toward a quiet but consequential moment: a 2026 renewal vote that will determine whether one of the city’s most unusual and community-driven tax tools gets a second life.

"Born from decades of underinvestment, redlined lending patterns and a stubborn appraisal gap that pushed private development elsewhere, the one-eighth-cent Kansas City’s Central City Economic Development (CCED) sales tax has attempted something blunt and simple: provide the last-in dollars needed to make east-side projects real."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Lesser-known sales tax faces pivotal 2026 vote, opportunity to define its next chapter