a little megathread for this seems useful. what’s on your ballot folks? are you going out to vote today or have you already voted? if you haven’t or are interested in what significant elections are taking place today, Bolts Magazine has its yearly cheat sheet.
I early voted over the weekend in Kansas City. No statewide elections or issues, only city and county issues. And no major issues, at that.
One was for a new sales tax from the county to fund various things. I voted No. The property taxes are insane at the moment and the sales tax is already high. And the way that some are characterizing this new tax is that it’s for a “slush fund.” No thanks.
Then the city had two questions. The first was to continue a sales tax that funds public transportation for another 10yrs. I voted Yes. Even if I never use public transportation (bad, I know), I want more of it, not less.
The last question was to get remove like 5 acres of Parks & Rec land from the system. I voted No. I always vote No on removal of park lands. Yes we have plenty and yes this wasn’t exactly like a public park area (just some forested land), I would rather we keep what we got.
Voted no on the tax for the “slush fund” as well. Hope it fails. Someone linked to a bunch of reporting about how we’re already ignoring lots of federal funds for infrastructure that this new tax was supposed to fund.
Was that that r/KC post? I probably would’ve voted Yes on it had I not seen that.
So far, with 10% of the vote in, Question 1 isn’t passing, 62% vs 38%. Results I’m watching.
As an aside…Idk if you know, but there’s a practically dead KC Lemmy community – https://beehaw.org/c/kansascity@midwest.social – that I’m trying to slowly revive. I don’t even “own” the community, but it’d be neat to have a KC community out here. Feel free to join. Or if you know of another that’s more active, do share!
That was the one. Same reaction. I’m not usually against taxes but that post made a pretty compelling argument. Thank you for the Lemmy community recommendation. I’ll join it though I’ll admit I don’t comment much.