Comments on: Taxpayer-subsidized mega projects trying to squeeze local governments out of even more money http://blogkc.com/archives/2009/07/taxpayer-subsidized-mega-projects-trying-to-squeeze-local-governments-out-of-even-more-money/ A Weblog for Kansas City, Missouri. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bill Drummond http://blogkc.com/archives/2009/07/taxpayer-subsidized-mega-projects-trying-to-squeeze-local-governments-out-of-even-more-money/comment-page-1/#comment-194603 Bill Drummond Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:52:52 +0000 http://blogkc.com/?p=2447#comment-194603 These twin examples of unrestrained development causing problems for the financial well being of the community were forecast by Mayor Funkhouser over 2 years ago. He puts it aptly: Barnes/Cauthen "maxed out our credit cards". Now we see the equally imperial Kansas unrestrained developer matching the behavior of Missouri's unrestained developer. Note that it takes City Councils to grant the development incentives that are now robbing the resources for the real services people need. The City Councils, and their "leaders", are the bad guys here. I wish that the current Council of KCMO would follow their own promises, and reestablish the City office, ( cut by Wayne Cauthen ), that studies the total cost/benefit to KCMO. This Council is trying it's darndest to recreate the Barnes "bad 'ol times". These twin examples of unrestrained development causing problems for the financial well being of the community were forecast by Mayor Funkhouser over 2 years ago. He puts it aptly: Barnes/Cauthen “maxed out our credit cards”. Now we see the equally imperial Kansas unrestrained developer matching the behavior of Missouri’s unrestained developer.

Note that it takes City Councils to grant the development incentives that are now robbing the resources for the real services people need.
The City Councils, and their “leaders”, are the bad guys here.
I wish that the current Council of KCMO would follow their own promises, and reestablish the City office, ( cut by Wayne Cauthen ), that studies the total cost/benefit to KCMO. This Council is trying it’s darndest to recreate the Barnes “bad ‘ol times”.

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