Numlock News: June 26, 2019 • Electric Planes, Lacrosse, Kansas City
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By Walt Hickey If you enjoy Numlock, tell a friend about it and encourage them to subscribe. Kansas City Shuffle A great conflict may be approaching an armistice, as the respective governors of Missouri and Kansas are eyeing a ceasefire over the issue of tax incentives for companies crossing the river for tax purposes. Basically, the Kansas City metro stands astride two states, and just as other states get into ruthless and shortsighted competitions to set up incentives for companies to pick up shop and move for tax credits, that whole concept has been pushed to the point of ridicule in Kansas City. Since 2011, 5,526 jobs moved from the Kansas side to the Missouri side and 6,729 existing jobs moved from the Missouri side to the Kansas side. Missouri paid $151 million to companies to move the jobs and Kansas paid $184 million, which is extremely stupid and a completely insane use of taxpayer money. The
Numlock News: June 26, 2019 • Electric Planes, Lacrosse, Kansas City
Numlock News: June 26, 2019 • Electric…
Numlock News: June 26, 2019 • Electric Planes, Lacrosse, Kansas City
By Walt Hickey If you enjoy Numlock, tell a friend about it and encourage them to subscribe. Kansas City Shuffle A great conflict may be approaching an armistice, as the respective governors of Missouri and Kansas are eyeing a ceasefire over the issue of tax incentives for companies crossing the river for tax purposes. Basically, the Kansas City metro stands astride two states, and just as other states get into ruthless and shortsighted competitions to set up incentives for companies to pick up shop and move for tax credits, that whole concept has been pushed to the point of ridicule in Kansas City. Since 2011, 5,526 jobs moved from the Kansas side to the Missouri side and 6,729 existing jobs moved from the Missouri side to the Kansas side. Missouri paid $151 million to companies to move the jobs and Kansas paid $184 million, which is extremely stupid and a completely insane use of taxpayer money. The