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Originally Posted by ken ott
He has a point but still 25 million from Lamar for improvements, give me a break. As far as I know there is no tax on anybody to go to the stadiums. I'm not saying the people in Jeff City are not idiots, but time for these teams to take some responsibity for stadiums just like they are doing in Dallas, Washington, etc.
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$5.00 from every Field Level ticket goes into taxes. In addition, the Chiefs as a business pay Missouri Taxes. All professional athletes that live in Missouri pay state income taxes. All professional athletes that play at Arrowhead pay (additional) taxes to the state on their income whether they live in Missouri or not. All of the thousands of hotel rooms generated by the games are each assessed a state and local tax. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by fans on souvenirs, restaurants, fuel, clothing, etc. of which all is assessed a sales tax as well as a business tax.
I have no problem with the Hunt’s contributing… but to think that the state is being taken advantage of is naïve.
Luz
And to think that gretz is a tool for addressing this is, imo, silly…