RavBytes: If I Had $75 Million Dollars To Spend On The City...

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"I would buy St. Louis a fur coat, but not a real fur coat 'cause that's cruel..."

On the other side of the state, in a stadium far, far away a football team called the Kansas City Chiefs is to build a new training stadium in St. Joe, MO and to make further upgrades to the stadium where they play. This wish comes on the heels of a $50 million dollar tax credit that was granted to the city in 2006 for upgrades to both the baseball and football stadiums.

Since the Chiefs are technically a Missouri team (but who roots for them when we have the Rams right?) those are our tax dollars, and as the decision about the credit may be funneled through a special committee you might not get a lot of say about it. That got me to thinking about all of the different ways that I might spend $75 million dollars (that is if someone asked me about it). It might be kind of fun to put some of that money into our city's public education system since there are a few schools that might need it. Oh-oh, or maybe we could keep some of those MetroBus lines from closing? Just a thought, that is if we had $75 million dollars laying around.