“Kurt Schaefer continues his petulant pattern of vendetta-based governance by filing legislation to forcibly repeal the local earnings taxes in St. Louis and Kansas City in defiance of the will of local voters.
“The senator from Boone County apparently is very cross with St. Louis and Kansas City elected officials because they act in conformity to the wishes of local residents and not to the wishes of the senator from Boone County. As a result he is resorting to his usual bullying tactics with his proposal to bankrupt Missouri’s two largest cities by eliminating the funding source that provides more than a third of their budgets.
“In April 2011, 78 percent of Kansas City voters favored renewing their city’s earnings tax. In St. Louis, the tax was retained with 90 percent support. Kansas City and St. Louis residents will not be intimated by Senator Schaefer’s threats and political posturing. But if the senator wants a real fight, he’s about to get one.”
House Minority Leader Jake Hummel Assistant Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty
D-St. Louis D-Kansas City
