Will Kansas City vote against the E-tax?

[hfojvt]

I was never a big fan of it, since it is not progressive. Even a person making $3,000 would pay the tax.

Still, it would be crazy for them to vote against it. To some degree it is free money.

For example, myself. I paid the tax, to the amount of about $270 a year even though I never lived in Kansas City.

KC residents must be getting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of services - paid for by non-residents like myself and my brother-in-law.


I do wonder about self-employment though. I had a business too (actually two of them) and neither one of them made any money. Still, I wonder if I would have to pay the earnings tax on my gross earnings. That would really suck. So I would have a typical year with about $16,000 in sales with a net of (-600) and still pay an earnings tax of $160, just adding to my loss. I would not be happy about that at all, and I spent seven years losing money like that. Same thing with the laundromat, and even worse there I was already basically paying sales taxes out of my own pocket. A wash was not $1.25 plus tax, instead I paid the tax out of the $1.25, and that 'business' never made any money either.

[pstokely]

1. Wrong State

NT

[hfojvt]

2. well we don't live there

but we can talk about them.

Especially as an ex-urber, I watch their TV.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I hope not

It's 40% of the city's budget. Kansas city would die without this tax. And anything that impacts the city of KCMO impacts the entire metro area.