And the property and sales taxes the city collects are somehow insufficient to fund that infrastructure, unlike literally every other municipality in Missouri other than St. Louis. Somehow these two need to collect an extra percent of "earned" income from people who live and work in them.
The bottom line is that when considering the compensation package for a job, the nominal pay is but a part of the story. One must add the value of benefits, and subtract the cost of taxes, transportation, etc. The need the city has for that money is irrelevant to the fact that the worker won't be allowed to keep it. He too can not operate on a pro bono basis.
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
On 2024-05-24 15:26, Billy Croan wrote:
What on Earth are they doing? I mean it's trains so like, scheduling, billing, signaling?
I don't know what particular project this is. Last time I talked to KC Southern they had a fairly small Linux team. They were working to get the systems that had done those things migrated from an old mainframe to a simulation running on RHEL.
They also have a Positive Train Control project - that involves a variety of hardware, embedded devices and such. Also human-life critical.
And their location is subject to the KC MO 1% income tax I assume, unless they're grandfathered out of it somehow for being a railroad?
There are apparently some costs incurred in the provision of the city infrastructure. They can not operate on a pro bono basis.
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