Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The Star’s editorial | Costly border war fails to expand jobs areawide


Tax incentives lured Freightquote from Kansas into Missouri, attracting applause from Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (center) and Kansas City Mayor Sly James (right of Nixon). The cross-state incentive war must slow in 2013.The Kansas City area’s destructive economic development border war continued in 2012, diverting millions of public dollars to private companies for almost no net new jobs in the region.


With effective leadership from Govs. Sam Brownback in Kansas and Jay Nixon in Missouri — and from others on both sides of the state line — this fiscal foolishness needs to be dramatically reduced in 2013.

The deals this year created a few private business winners, as elected officials granted breaks to those that will pay lower taxes than required of most everyone else. They included AMC Entertainment (moving from Kansas City to Leawood) and Freightquote (moving from Lenexa to Kansas City).

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