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Subject: Re: CA car rental fees Posted on: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:11:34 PDT


"Shawn Hirn" wrote in message
news:srhi-8F5839.07003612062007@newsgroups.comcast.net...
> In article ,
> "- Bobb -" wrote:
>
>> Yeah but Out-of-Towners decide not to ever visit after finding out.
>
> Doubtful. Tourism in my home town is up significantly after heavy taxes
> were placed on rental cars. This is in part because the taxes help pay
> for some attractions that tourists enjoy. The taxes on a rental car are
> also usually in such small proportion to the overall cost of a vacation
> that most people don't even bat an eye over them.

No, you just get pissed about them. Avis had a sign about the excess tax in
Houston to pay for a football stadium. Easy to rip off visitors. Since I
was there on business, the company was extorted.