Reply #8: I don't think that KCMO spends their money wisely [View All]

Just a couple years ago they had to increase sales tax in order to fund changes to their police departments, including the funds to build a new station in North KC, which had 911 response times of more than 10 minutes! The city council should have budgeted this in, but they didn't and the police department had to ask for money through higher taxes.

I just don't think that KCMO has their act together. There are more important things than funding sports teams (50% of the money raised goes to that, btw). The other 50 percent is a good spend in the arts department, but what about their horrible education system?? What about the fact that the entire downtown area is an abandoned, rundown hell-hole with small patches of manicured wealth thrown in here or there?? They really need to raise some taxes of their own to renovate the basics of their city before they try to woo sports fans and teams with new facilities they can't afford.