Sounds like a good time to boycott Alaska!!! They are too greedy.
Don
"Dennis P. Harris" wrote in message
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> In spite of the industry's million and a half dollar advertising
> blitz, the voters of Alaska didn't buy the cruise industry's
> lies! They voted 52% to 47% to levy a $50 per passenger fee,
> make cruise lines once again subject to Alaska corporate income
> taxes, put state ocean rangers on every cruise ship to change the
> industry's record of pollution violations, force the industry to
> disclose fees paid for mentioning shops in "port lectures" and
> the commissions on shore excursions, and to tax the cruise
> industry's gambling take at the same 1/3 of gross receipts paid
> by Alaska's charitable gaming licensees.
>
> In other words, Alaskans are sick and tired of paying for all the
> negative impacts of the cruise industry, believe that the
> industry should pay taxes and fees like every other industry in
> Alaska, and voted to make it happen.
>
> I only pray that it will cost them enough that there are fewer
> passengers coming to Alaska each year. If the numbers continue
> to increase, I'm sure we'll vote to raise the gambling tax rate
> even higher. The industry might be able to buy enough lobbyists
> and legislators to keep legislation like this passing the
> legislature, but they can't keep us off the ballot! The industry
> spent at least $1.5 million, the proponents of the initiative
> spent less than $5,000 --- and the voters knew who was telling
> the truth and who was lying!
>
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> If you want to see the real Alaska, don't come on a
> cruise ship! See the cruise industry rogue's gallery
> at http://www.cruisejunkie.com/#Environmental_Issues
>
> Dennis P. Harris NO_SPAM_TO_dpharris@gci.net
>
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