WyCo casino could generate $203 million in revenue its first year

to know exactly how many dollars the people receive and how those dollars are spent. If we do get the tax dollars but it is all given for incentives and handouts to the big boys and not for the services the people need or perhaps to give the people lower school tax bills, tuition, etc. then what good is all of this gaming. Just like so many of the projects that the people are called upon to pay for - what do they ever get out of it except probably a higher bill somewhere along the line. The economists working in the Topeka legislature are not main street economists but those who take care of the Wall St. and banking bandits and the crooks doing the taking in your own backyard.

Headlines like these are great for the politicians and the money and greed mongers but do little for Main St. USA.in my opinion.

This really sounds familiar, wasn't it just a few years ago the Woodlands would
generate millions and millions and reduce opur taxes,didn't happen. A new race track would generate millions and millions and lower our property taxes, didn't happen they went up. Oh yeah the best deal of all Neb Furniture Mart & Cabela's will generate millions of tax dollars and lets open the Legends that will create millions of tax dollars, well once again the people of WYCO were
bung-holed and ended up costing us more in taxes and getting NOTHING in return. Sure bring in the casino I hope it generates millions in taxes like the rest of the pipe dreams. Has anyone actually asked where all of this windfall money went???

Why should it take Phase II for a hotel to be built? Thats clearly in violation of the law passed by KS legislators requiring that it be part of a destination resort. And, how can it be legal to be part of the KS lottery sponsored and STar Bond funded Speedway?

At least two strikes my from my post.

Joe Mannix

their appraised value of their property lowered so their taxes may be less and in the meantime while they are protesting their property tax appraisal does not pay their tax bill unlike how the ordinary citizen is required to do so. This is on top of the lovely incentives they got up front. Another case of the tax benefit analysis that was made up front that won't come out to the people's benefit, not they ever do anyway.

I would like to know the amount of reduction in appraisal dollars and/or the percentages that big biz got on their appeals vs. what the average citizen got in the last 5 or 10 years. I will bet you I know which entity is getting the biggest reductions in appraisal amounts thru appeals and it sure isn't Joe Smith.

The politicians and the money and greed mongers once again are showing their true colors and the color is green as the greenbacks they love to steal from us.

If I remember correctly when gambling was first legalized in Kansas in one form or another, one of the selling points was money for our schools - has anyone had a reduction in their school taxes in recent years? I sure haven't and all of the deals aren't going to help me but just the special interests and their paid politicians.

This coming Jan. when the Kansas legislature begins we might find these legislators being called out even more so because the tax revenue is not going to be there for them to spend and it will be interesting to see how they handle the hard times like the average citizens have had to do who have lost jobs like crazy and faced stagnant wages, increasing health care costs even if they are lucky enough to have some 2nd class health care insurance plan, increasing tuition costs, etc., etc. They will quibble like crazy and not accomplish anything of benefit for the citizens and then comes the fall of 2010 - ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE THESE JAYBIRDS BACK INTO OFFICE???? If you do, you deserve the crappy government you have and will get.

if my memory serves me correctly they had not paid their property taxes for 3 years while they appealed their appraisal amounts. If that was an average citizen, they would have been selling their house on the courthouse steps for not paying their taxes. There is a procedure for the big boys and there is a procedure for the average citizen - plain and simple. And Wyandotte Co. is putting the welcome mat out for Patterson and Illig so they can reap the benefits of the good deals too and all the while the citizens will be losing tax revenue for years and years from these good deals and will be called upon to pay higher school tax bills, tuition, fees, etc. as the tax burden is shifted to them more and more every year. The state of Kansas is supposed to be broke but boy the Dept. of Commerce can sure come up with the Millions for the big boys - they sure can't find those millions of dollars for the Kansans without health care insurance or many others in need. Big boy economics and Main Street economics - one entity benefits and one pays the piper. Privatizing gains and socializing costs and losses. Where are you on the totem pole????

or do they think that magically stupid people will start losing twice as much - or go to two casinos and try to win back what they lost at the first.

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