Ah, yes. Another Pitch article that is completely editorial instead of actually doing some research. You seem to think KU is the only team selling their tickets on Groupon when, if you'd do a simple Google search, you could find that the University of Colorado, Boston College, NC State, Chicago White Sox, the Royals & the Mets have all sold tickets on Groupon. And this is not the first KU game to have tickets on Groupon. 913 tickets were sold to the KU v Colorado game. In fact, sports tickets have done so well on Groupon, an entire new site is hoping to cash in on the craze. It's called Crowd Seats.
So, if what you were actually wanting to do is write an article about the use of Groupon for sports tickets, perhaps you should've done your due diligence with the whole story. But if what you were trying to accomplish was bad-mouthing KU's football team because you're pissed off Mizzou doesn't get to play them for the Big 12 championship anymore thanks to a move to the SEC where they are going to get PUMMELED by better programs than Mizzou could ever hope to be, well then, sir, you succeeded.
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JoCo residents pay for infrastructure through the KC earnings tax, which we had no vote on, that most of us pay because we work in KC. It's not like state income tax, we don't get a penny of that back. Take away our taxes and what tax base do you have left?
Per the KCMO government site(kcmo.org): "About 50 percent of this revenue comes from people who live outside Kansas City, in Kansas and elsewhere." And "The earnings tax raises about $200 million annually, or about 40 percent of all of the City’s general fund revenue. The tax pays for services such as police and fire protection, economic development, health care programs, street repairs, affordable housing, environmental quality, trash collection, weed control, dangerous buildings removal and care of parks, boulevards and recreation centers."
I think we participate in your tax base.