The blog that this comes from is typically wrong on most predictions so lets hope that this little tidbit falls in line with all of the others.
Tonyskansascity has an "inside" source telling him that KCMO plans on increasing the earnings tax. If this happens it will mark the beginning of the end of KCMO. With vacant offices, better parking, lower crime and less crowding the biggest benefactor of such an action would be Johnson County. The corporate moving vans packing 435 West & I35 South would bring traffic to a standstill.
As a resident of Johnson County you would think that I would be excited about the thought of the sudden shot to our tax base, but you are wrong. It is important for downtown KCMO to be strong and instead of taxing businesses/people more they should be cutting taxes to attract new businesses. Who the hell was the last big corporation to move its HQ to KCMO from a different metro area? That along with the decades of handouts to special interest groups, church's and "civic programs" is the reason that they have no money.
Does KCMO really want to penalize the people that bring money into the city for their inability to manage their books. The companies/people didn't create this problem, THEY DID. Let them be the ones to take the hit.
