(Jay) Nixon calls for border war truce in KC [View all]

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Source: Kansas City Star

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon slammed the border war for businesses in the Kansas City metropolitan area Tuesday as “bad” for the local economy and called for a moratorium on using tax incentives to shuffle companies across the state line.

In a policy speech to the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the governor said he had reached out to the administration of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to pursue legislation that would make a moratorium permanent.

In recent years, the so-called border war has shifted more than 5,000 jobs across the state border within the metro area, draining more than $200 million in income tax revenues from the states and resulting in no net gain to the local economy.

“That’s bad for taxpayers, it’s bad for our state budgets, and it’s bad for our economy, hampering our ability to compete as a region,” Nixon said in prepared remarks to the chamber.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/11/12/4616080/nixon-calls-for-border-war-truce.html

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