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Article #6836Re: OUTRAGEOUS tax on car rental in Las Vegas
From: Danny Low
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00
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Paulo Santos (pas@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
: The rationale, as someone already explained, is that it is much easier to
: raise taxes on non-voting non-residents than on voting residents.
: Evidently this is unfair, and something similar (taxation without
: representation) has led to a nice party is Boston a few generations ago.
: What you see is today's politicians at their best.
There is one difference here. YOU benefit from this practice
locally as well. YOUR local community is doing the same thing to
tourists who come through. So what goes around comes around in
this case. Which makes it fair. Also tourism is a voluntary
activity and communities who raise taxes too high find tourists
start going else where. Apparently that is what is happening in
Hawaii. They have raised taxes so much that they are losing tourists
to alternative destination like Florida.
Danny Low
"Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
HP NSD dlow@ppg01.sc.hp.com
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