And you disregard the fact that a lot of homes don't give a shit about sports, or that this tax will affect tax payers that aren't even born yet, or the fact that JaCo is already in debt from other corporate welfare projects, or that JaCo tax payers are in the middle of suing the city because of the massive tax hike that was just implemented, or the fact that no one wanted royals stadium where they tried to force it, or the fact that the chiefs renovation plan only benefits a few 1%ers on game day, or that the funding and default plan was so weak that a Jaco legislator tried to cancel the vote.

So yeah. I guess if you ignore all the problems with this proposal then it does seem silly.. but that's on you and willful ignorance.

I don’t live in the KC area, but I doubt the Chiefs paid for ads that threatened the team would move to somewhere outside the KC metro area, which includes two states.

St. Louis losing a team does not have the worst optics. They had already lost the Cardinals NFL franchise that they got from Chicago and although the Rams won it all while in St. Louis, that franchise was only in St. Louis for a short fraction of its existence, especially compared to where it is has mainly been, the city it moved back to.

Bottom line is it is really an insignificant amount of money per household. All the other bullshit is just that, bullshit. If you don't support that tax staying in effect because you don't like sports, great. This tax isn't going to put anyone in the poor house or cause people to lose their homes.

You sound like a bitter douchebag who walks around wearing a "Tax is Theft" T-shirt while drawing a welfare check and food stamps each month.

The Earnings Tax is a city budget item, not a county budget item. I think what you're referencing was the county executive's office talking about the operation of the stadiums. I also trust that to be accurate and not adjusted to meet White's narrative... not at all.

And the deal that was rejected shifted many of the operating costs to the teams.

The people that allow the Chiefs to walk to a different state should have to where a big Chiefs Red L on their forehead for the rest of their lifes. $150.00 a year each? And that probably doesn't account for the tax revenue collected from people from out of the county that come to see the Chiefs and Royals.

You seem like "That Guy" who will complain about anything, just to complain...But that's on you, and it's called ignorance by choice.

Should taxpayers only pay for stuff they care about and not for the stuff they don’t care about?

No, but we should vote on large effort-specific "special purpose" taxes. That's what happened here.

The Royals and Chiefs did such an incredibly bad job campaigning for this to pass. So much misinformation was being thrown out and they did nothing to counter it. They didn't explain that the money from a 3/8 cent sales tax amounts to jack shit.

If you were to buy on average $300/week in Jackson County the amount of money that would be going to the stadiums is $58.50 for the entire year. That is 16 cents a day or $4.88/month. So you would be paying $2.44 a month to each the Royals and Chiefs.

Yeah let's lose all the tax revenue from players game day checks and employees of the teams checks, so that people will at most put less than $5/month in there pocket.

Hold on though, I don't think the county is going to just lose millions of dollars in tax revenue. They'll get that money back from the tax payer somehow.

I don't believe a single thing that comes from Frank White's mouth in regards to any of this. He's just a bitter old man that is trying to get his.

Are we pretending a county subsidizing a billionaire's entertainment business is anywhere near the same thing as funding something like a new school or water treatment plant? We vote on those things all the time and they're a hell of a lot more important than something as trivial as sports entertainment.

Except the billionaire’s don’t own the stadium. The city/county does. In essence the taxpayers would benefit from the revenue generated from events the stadium(s) hosts. That does not go into the pockets of the owners of the sports teams. I wasn’t referring to building a new school or water treatment plant. Let’s not pretend that eliminating the 3/8 cent tax would result in either of those being built.

Now a tax I was referring to is a property tax. A portion of that tax goes to funding schools that are zoned in that area. Should someone who has no children or children that do not go to those schools be forced to fund them without a say in it? If so, why?

Stop belittling the citizens. A billionaire is asking the citizens for billions of our dollars.

Do you have a better plan?

Yes, otherwise the generation eventually wiping your ass won’t know how to read the instructions.