News flash: Iowa bureaucrat says tourists spent more than $7 billion in Iowa last year.
About two-thirds of it was the cost of driving around, trying to find a way out. Wait. I made that up, although it is not a totally implausible thought.
But I find the news item important as an illustration of the genius displayed by our official shreikspersons. For instance:
Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham says travelers are perfect taxpayers because "they come to our communities for a short time and leave billions of dollars behind."
Well said, Debi. Now if we only had a law preventing our own wild and crazy guys from traveling around and spending money in other hip scenes... (I'm thinking of places like Nebraska.)
1 comment:
Hey, they're the perfect tax subjects. We have taxes on hotels/motels, rental cars, whatever else a visitor must pay to use. JAGSC
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