"sharx35" wrote in message
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> "Calif Bill" wrote in message
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>> "Shawn Hirn" wrote in message
>> news:srhi-8F5839.07003612062007@newsgroups.comcast.net...
>>> In article ,
>>> "- Bobb -" wrote:
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>>>> Yeah but Out-of-Towners decide not to ever visit after finding out.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Far better YOU pay that the tax for the stadium than millions of residents
> who NEVER use the effing stadium.
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And how many of us travelers ever used the effing stadium?
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