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The Monday Poll: Fate of Kansas City’s earnings tax is on the line

Mayor Sly James of Kansas City (left) supports retaining the earnings tax, while Sen. Kurt Schaefer opposes doing that.
Mayor Sly James of Kansas City (left) supports retaining the earnings tax, while Sen. Kurt Schaefer opposes doing that.

Many of Kansas City’s elected and civic officials are mounting an all-out effort to stop the Missouri General Assembly from passing a bill that would kill the city’s 1 percent earnings tax by the end of 2017.

We’d like to get your responses to the following statements about the future of the tax, which raises $230 million a year. Mobile users, go here.

Results are posted online Tuesday and in the paper on Wednesday.

This story was originally published January 15, 2016 at 5:31 PM with the headline "The Monday Poll: Fate of Kansas City’s earnings tax is on the line."

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