“Corporate welfare,” cries The KC Star! $47 million in Kansas tax dollars lures AMC from KCMO

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  September 19th at 12:24 AM  | 

Irony:  One year ago, The Kansas City Star editorial board said this about an effort to end the one percent earnings tax for everybody working in Kansas City, MO (regardless of state of residence):  “E-tax campaign threatens KC’s future.”  Now, The Star reports, “AMC is the third major Kansas City business to move to Kansas in less than two years.” Irony:  On August 18, Kansas | Read More »

The curfew for teenagers in Kansas City, MO, does nothing about minority poverty, oppressive K-12 schools, violence, or fatherlessness

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  August 26th at 01:10 PM  | 

Government is a main source of poverty, and it’s ineffective for government to increase its presence to “solve” problems that it, itself, creates.  Prosperity is caused through increased freedom, not through increased government.  Florida Senator Marco Rubio gets this.  Unfortunately for minorities and for the area’s poor, many leaders in Greater Kansas City do not get this. As reported in the KC Monitor, Kansas City | Read More »