Here's just the thing: I am looking at building a 100x50 steel building, heated floor, insulated, etc.

I live in the middle of nowhere. When I build this thing, I will get completely ass raped on taxes. I will not see an extra road grader pass (if I see one at all), or any infrastructure upgrades anywhere within 10 miles of my house.

Yet I will dump thousands per year into the system. That is completely ****ed in my opinion.

This is not true. The elderly are definitely feeling the pain...they have had depressed valuations for for a long time, and the valuation model is hitting them hard because every part of the city has seen so much investor renovations over the past 3 yrs that is pulling all properties up. The elderly invest very little in their homes, therefore they are getting pulled up way too high based on the renovated sale prices. The software they use does not have a check box for "elderly" or "minority".

Where are you getting the info that "Frank White and city leaders went down"?

Zillow is not at all accurate. They do better in homogeneous neighborhoods with tight ranges and similar floor plans, but can be wildly inaccurate in other areas....theyy do not know the details or conditions of your home, especially split levels or homes with finished lower levels

Franks actually went up like 7% and Don McCan sp? Went up 10%. So yeah theres increased but not nearly as much as alot of people. Why can't they just put a cap on the valuations?

Greed. They all need raises. Hell Q is probably looting the city on his way out.

Q already raised the salary for mayor and city council a few years ago lmao

They absolutely should have already, and I thought there was legislation on the table that will cap in the future...if not, there will be soon because of this. It's just common sense and the only responsible thing to do, but as we all know, Jackson Co. is incapable of acting with a shred of either.

i bet there's some real dirty shit going on right now...kc has always been a town with dirty politics

Yep, he has big plans and needs to start building that war chest

real easy to give tax breaks to your buddies around the city and get kickbacks

he's a ****ing commie midget

fight the power

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kansas City woman, angry about her property taxes, paying with nickels – <br><br>After a 135% increase in her property tax bill Cynthia Lockett will pay her bulging property tax bill,<br><br>But with 1,419 rolls of nickels that will weigh over 625 pounds.<br><br> <a href="https://t.co/x4MWpbScYX">https://t.co/x4MWpbScYX</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Today (@KC__Today) <a href="https://twitter.com/KC__Today/status/1201190814103298051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Funny you should mention that, I was just with an elderly man last Friday who just got raped on his property taxes in Brookside, and it turns out his garndfather was the one that took down Tom Pendergast (Milligan?) in the 1930s

meanwhile

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UPDATE: Port KC board to consider issuing $36M bond for 108-unit, 12-story Crossroads apartment project next week; 18-year property tax abatement, 10 percent affordable units at 60 percent AMI.<br> <a href="https://t.co/kMj8rLr7uF">https://t.co/kMj8rLr7uF</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/cityscenekc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CitySceneKC</a></p>&mdash; Kevin Collison (@cityscenekc) <a href="https://twitter.com/cityscenekc/status/1639283308180766721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Same bullshit is going on in Omaha and the rest of Nebraska. I just moved to Fremont and within days there's a letter is in the mailbox from the assessor asking all kinds of questions...yeah **** you I ain't answering shit...

How do you expect Rhule to make 9.5 a year?