In Kansas City, an arena that the city still owed $10 million on the bonds when they declared it obsolete and gave it away. A downtown “entertainment district” that the developer couldn’t keep going and the city has subsidized it to the tune of $167 million. Add $1.5 billion for a new inconvenient airport terminal, and demolishing the old convenient terminal which had recently been remodeled. The citizens didn’t want it, but the airlines and the heavy contractors did. That’s what I meant by publicly financed “anything.”
And now they are threatening to leave, while the county leaders try to figure out how to stick it to the taxpayers anyway. Did I mention their two stadiums are among the best in the country? And they were recently renovated at taxpayers’ expense? Did I mention they wanted to put the new baseball stadium downtown?
My dad had the seat covers on at least two consecutive cars.