More likely $125M to enforce and raise $5M annually. If it sticks.
It has been in effect for decades designed to collect extra taxes on those who worked in Kansas City but lived outside the city limits, to "pay for 'city services'" such as police protection, street and road maintenance, parks and fountains, snow removal, etc. everything necessary for their businesses to operate.
Sounds good in theory, right? When city crews need to dig up the street to get to a water main or gas or sewer line, they cover their holes with metal plates - for years. A child once fell in a hole that hadn't yet received the plate and drowned, but that's life. When it snows, nothing much gets plowed as street maintenance say either they're waiting for the quick thaw or worse yet, claim they can't lower their plows too close to surface as the "blades break" or doing so "ruins pavement and "we only got a couple of inches so no need to plow as we can't go that low anyway!"
Sadly, those of us who live on the Kansas side of the state line have all our streets plowed down close to the pavement and when we drive a few blocks to the Missouri side of the state line, plow through snow and ice to get to businesses and shopping. I might also toss in the fact that Kansas City, Missouri charge to park on those snow-packed streets, Kansas does NOT.
Cause and effect of city Earnings Tax, businesses began relocating a few blocks West to the State of Kansas so that now, there is almost a war going on to attract businesses to Kansas City, MO and when a company comes to town, they invariably locate in wealthier Johnson County, KS so good bye to Earnings Tax for those employees!
Voters tried voting Earnings Tax down but were told, city services such as police and fire departments couldn't operate without it as the city had counted on it so long, it was now considered necessary for the city to survive.