Kansas City Royals Offered Blank Check?!?

Forgive us . . . 

TKC might blog high finance news and info but we're not an economist . . . Longtime readers know that this town's worst blogger was pre-med but decided to give it all up to watch movies semi-professionally and write witty banter for AI models to try (and FAIL) to emulate. 

And look how far we've come!!!

Ugh. 😔

But enough about TKC . . .

Right now we've another bad joke from the Courthouse . . .

THE NEW PLAN FOR KANSAS CITY ROYALS:  INFINITE TAXPAYER CASH FOR STAYING ANYWHERE INSIDE JACKSON COUNTY!!! 

Two things here . . .

This is a bad idea and there aren't enough votes to pass it out of the courthouse

Also . . . 

The Royals wouldn't want it because it limits their options. 

Here are the basics & more info . . .

"The chairman of the Jackson County Legislature has introduced legislation that would have voters deciding in April whether to pass a countywide 3/8-cent stadiums sales tax that run out in the year 2071, 40 years after the current tax expires in 2031.

"The county has yet to negotiate new leases with either the Chiefs of the Royals, which means chairman DaRon McGee’s proposed ordinance is unprecedented. The current leases were signed before the county legislature in 2006 voted to put the current sales tax up for voter approval that year.

"While the language in the ordinance notes ongoing lease negotiations, nowhere does it say that signed leases must be in place before the tax measure is put before the voters."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Jackson County leaders to vote on Royals, Chiefs sales tax ballot question

Jackson County leaders plan to vote Monday on a ballot question to ask voters to extend the Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Chiefs sales tax.

New proposal moves to put stadium tax on ballot before Royals pick site or sign lease

The Jackson County proposal by DaRon McGee is unprecedented.

Jackson County legislator wants to ask voters to extend 3/8-cent sales tax for stadium upgrades

A Jackson County legislator wants to ask county voters next April to approve an extension of 3/8-cent sales tax for improvements and additions to the Royals and Chiefs stadium.