Fact Check: Most Kansas Voters Oppose Corporate Welfare For Kansas City Chiefs

Credit to local conservative blogger for compiling this EXCEPTIONAL roundup that offers a glimpse of local voter RESISTANCE against committing their grandchildren to paying BILLIONAIRE Clark Hunt.

Check-it:  

"70% opposed the idea in Olathe moments before the City Council voted unanimously 7-0 to use 1% of the General Purpose City Sales and Use Tax, Olathe’s portion of the 0.5% Johnson County General Purpose Sales Tax, and 7% of the 9% City Transient Guest Tax, the hotel-motel tax to build a headquarters for the team and and adjoining entertainment development in an undeveloped area of College and Ridgeview. The total cost would approach $400 million.

"KCK residents were even more opposed, with 90% speaking out against a domed stadium on 235 acres bordered by Parallel Parkway to the north and State Avenue to the south, and by 118th Street and 126th Street west to east. KCK Taxpayers are asked to contribute 1% of sales and use taxes not committed to other uses, more than 93% of WYCO’s 1% sales and use tax not committed to other uses, and up to 8% of its hotel-motel tax. But the Unified Government (UG) Commissioners approved the measure 7-3."

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

Sentinal: “Our elected officials seem to be working harder representing the Chiefs than their taxpayers”