Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me

October 15, 2019

Developer Paul McKee, who got millions in tax credits to develop properties and save their areas from urban blight, but who never followed through, is asking for another deal to do the same thing.

Aldermen are considering it.

Stan Kroenke, who stiffed the St. Louis region by demanding a new football stadium and then taking the Rams elsewhere, has persuaded the leaders of Wentzville to let him build a shopping center and TO RAISE THE SALES TAX AT OTHER BUSINESSES—not his—to pay for his tax incentives.

  

If you look up the word “gullible” in the dictionary, will you see their pictures?


October 16,2019

Correction: Many of the properties in the taxing zone are owned by Kroenke and his associates; only some of the properties are not owned by them. The Kroenke properties will also have the tax levied on their sales.