City of Olathe Residents (Not) Suffering Buyer’s Remorse on New Street Sales Tax

               City of Olathe residents approved a 3/8^th cent Street Maintenance Sales Tax back in November 2013. At the time, the passage of the tax was regarded as a success to keep Olathe’s roads as some of the nicest in all of Johnson County. While citizens pay at the checkout lines to keep the quality roads, they also will be paying with the long lines of traffic due to the increased road construction this summer. The city estimates road work to occur on 90 lane miles which is four times the amount of road work as last summer.

Residents are already feeling fortunate that the privilege to spend even more of their lives waiting in traffic days will only cost them 3/8^th cents. Plus as summer approaches they’ll receive the added bonus of enjoying the smells of burning asphalt on sweltering 100 degree days. Talk about a great two for one special. Long time resident Johnny Optimism sees paying the tax each time he goes to the gas station as the gift that just keeps on giving. “If only those Show-Me staters with their inferior roads knew what they were missing!”