Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly denounced Tuesday job growth results of $330 million in economic incentives handed out in the past decade to lure jobs back and forth across the state border cutting through metropolitan Kansas City.
Kelly referred to the border war as a “fiscally irresponsible” contest for bragging rights for which the winner earned the opportunity to portray the illusion of success, while Parson said it didn’t take a rocket scientist to confirm the two-state competition that moved jobs around the chess board was “a bad deal for both states.”
They joined forces at the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce summit at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan., to celebrate taking a new bi-state approach linking state-level business incentives to net job expansion.
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