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Welcome to SaveKC.com. I am glad you are here.
Hopefully, the information contained in these pages will help
inform you on the issues surrounding the saveourstadiums campaign.
Kansas
City is too good for this. We are too good of a town to
be pushed around by politicians and the elite. We are
too good of a town to sell out our kid’s futures and
continue to line the pockets of the team owners. We are just
too good for
this kind of treatment!
This campaign to “keep our teams” and
come up with $425,000,000.00, at a minimum, is nothing
more than the
following:
- Bailing
out the elected and appointed officials
of Jackson County. These people have once again displayed
their blatant disregard for public responsibility.
- A
chance for Jackson Countians to continue to spoil our
extremely profitable professional sports teams.
- Sign
on for a 25 year tax. (My 3 year old will be 28
years old once it is all said and done.)
This website is for the
average person in Jackson County. Not the poor and homeless,
and not the rich and self proclaimed
elite. This is for the people I see at Price Chopper, Adams
Pointe Golf Course, and the Sinclair station on Blue Ridge
and 40 Highway. The people I work with in downtown KC.
The exact same people I see at Chiefs and Royals games.
This
is for the average, the very ones that will shoulder most
of the burden of this tax increase. The good news is, in
Jackson
County,
the average is the majority. We have the numbers, we have
the resources, and hopefully we will have the will to
stand up and say enough is enough!
Just like most of you, I am a huge fan for
both of our teams and would hate to see them go. What they
are trying to do is
tie our emotional attachment to our teams directly to this
issue. That is wrong and sleazy. Although I am a fan and
would love to see a winning team, I cannot sit back and
support what
these politicians are trying to pull. Their leases were
not good in 1990, they are not good for us today, and they
most
certainly are not good for our kids or our future. I have
small children and these politicians are asking me to vote
yes to tax my own kids
for a quarter of a century? That does not even sound ethically
right, does it?
Jackson
County is a community of people, not dollar signs. Look at
the groups
that endorse this plan: Politicians and
the corporate world’s “finest”. These politicians
just want to be able to talk about all of the great things
they got passed, so they can put it on their resume and run
for a better office. The corporate world’s “finest”,
the CEOs and presidents, are seeking more money to improve
whatever "bottom line" they get their millions from. Any group
of people that pays themselves 250% more than the average
employee are not to be trusted. These are the people who seem
to think this is a good idea. The problem is these people
are so far removed from the reality of the average life, it
is impossible for them to know what is in the best interest
of the average Jackson County citizen, you and I.
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