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Originally Posted by gblowfish
Just like I said earlier, here's another JoCo Bozo complaining about something that barely affects his wallet. I asked for property tax receipt to establish residency, I never said thats how the improvements were financed. Jackson County voted to renovate both Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums in 2007 following the passage of a 3/8-cent sales tax increase in a referendum. Notice that tax was passed in JACKSON County. Johnson County continues to freeload on what other parts of the city build to add to the communal good. Locals who live in city of KC south of the river, locals who live in Independence (my home town) or Sugar Creek, or Lee's Summit, or Blue Springs, or Buckner, or (your favorite suburb) Raytown, put their money where their mouth is and passed a tax to keep Kauffman Stadium looking good and viable as a MLB park. We buy our groceries, gas, clothes, hardware, most everything in JACKSON county. So STFD and  about who "paid" for this thing. |
No, you talked about property tax receipts because you didn't know how the thing was funded.
Every pitch to the voters included emphasis on the fact that Johnson County residents would wind up paying for a large portion of the cost via cross state purchases. The rolling roof would have been primarily by out of state business purchases.
I spend plenty of money in Jackson County, and I owned a business there as well. In fact, if I were to guess, I would say that I've paid more in Jackson County sales tax than the average Jackson County resident since the measure passed.