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If the tax is invested in advertising and that advertising generates more tourism than the tax discourages, it's a good investment. If it doesn't, it's not. 
If you have an opinion on this (positive or negative), and you don't know what those numbers are, you're not being intellectually honest with yourself.
Once you lure the tourists here with advertising that the tax pays for, they’ll have no choice but to pay the tax on their hotel… devious >

It’s common. Kansas City built a large arena and added a tax to hotel rooms and rental cars. Visitors to Kansas City paid for the arena. >

People visit Kansas City? >

I visited there for Christmas a few years back, and once or twice before then.
KC has some nice museums like the Nelson-Atkins, and the toys and miniatures museum. I was also visiting someone who had tickets to the symphony so I had a chance to see them and enjoyed it. 
Arthur Bryant's was good but not the best barbecue I've had, and it seemed like there were huge gaps in what was available at markets in different parts of town (places like Cosentino's closer to richer areas had better selection). Of course it was really cold (some 0 and -2 days when I was there), but I felt like as long as I dressed appropriately it was fine, and that's as someone from Los Angeles. I thought it was a nice enough city even if I'm not itching to move there >

We have like 40 BBQ brands.  they’re not all to eveveryone’s taste
though it was interesting finding Arthur Bryant’s sauce in an Amish store in the middle of eastern Ohio once. >

I still thought it was really good; we had a big group so I did try everything. The burnt ends were the best! I did have the sense that the sauce is supposed to be the star at AB's. >

I prefer one of their sauces, not a fan of the other two.
Joe’s is my favorite, followed by Jack Stack and Gates in no particular order.
Q39 and Rosedale are popular too.
Smokestack has great cheesy corn, we go there a lot.
Someone could eat local BBQ twice a day and take weeks to run out of options.
Our grocery store has a BBQ sauce section as big as the salad dressing section. >

Gates was my favorite when I was in KC on business.  That was 20 years ago so I can't speak to it now. >

It hasn’t changed in 20 years.
the recipe is still cook meat, mix sauce the same.  Done. >

State of Georgia charges you a flat $5 extra on top of taxes for every night you stay at a hotel >

I’m an accountant in the industry. In NYC you’re paying close to 20% tax on hotel stays with everything they tack on. >

Where i was staying in NYS it was around a 30 percent tax. Since there was country, city and state taxes on a hotel stay. >

Yea, it’s dependent on the county and city. You’d think NYC would be the highest, but nope! I worked on the books for a property in the Catskills and it was close to 30% on the taxes. >


tax tourists 1% for hotel rooms.....will amount to $1 more per $100        

r/TheyDidTheMath! >

It’s also an extra $10 for every $1000 spent. >

It's an extra billion for every 100 billion spent. 😱 >

There is no basis in maths that supports this claim. >

The proof is by violence:
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Q.E.D. >

All of these tiny tacked on fees add up, and are what pushed people initially towards Air BnB's, until they also became just as bad with all of their additional fees and expectations. >

I would say Airbnb is even worse at this point… at least when you’re booking a hotel they usually include most of the fees with the initial estimate. Booking on Airbnb is like Ticketmaster now; subtotal for 2 nights: $229. Checkout page: $412 wtf >

Honestly, it makes sense though. Most people aren’t going to notice a 1% increase on their hotel costs, because for most people it’ll account to like, $3 extra per night up to $10 a night if you’re really spending big. The money going into advertising is almost certainly going to have a positive impact on tourism, assuming that there aren’t other variables still at play, such as fears of violent crime, or inflation hitting everything across the board, which is likely a culprit for decreased tourism globally.
This is not really oniony at all if you get past the title. It’s a decent decision that could work out in their favor. >

1% here, 3 % there, 1% for the other thing, 5% for this. Pretty soon you get to real hidden costs. >

Cool. So where is the line? It sounds like 10% is where taxes appear to bother you.
Until then, get outta here with that Slippery Slope fallacy. >

Slippery slope argument? Thanks for telling people you haven’t paid to stay in a hotel in the last 30 years. Try looking up hotel tax rates in large cities. They are usually a minimum of 20+% tax, usually higher. >

The news is about a 1% tax.
If you want to avoid fallacies, talk about the pros and/or cons of the topic. >

DC already has a 14.5% hotel tax rate. So are you able to do simple addition or do I need to use smaller words on how this works? >

Seems like you’ve hit your personal limit. Past that point, there’s no purpose to considering the value of a policy, I guess >

Glad to see you don’t understand addition and how additional taxation works. Thanks for trying to pretend to be smart, kid. >

😘 >

Sometimes I forget that a lot of people haven't lived in a tourist destination or worked in tourism. This is both completely par for course and amusingly minor. >

You don't pay any state tax purely because of this tax on hotels and resorts. >

We don't pay a state income tax, but we still have a state sales tax and higher than normal property taxes. And most counties in the state have an additional sales tax on top of the state tax.
Several other states that have much lower tourism rates also don't have an income tax. >

Hotels in the U.S. already have an excessive amount of fees and taxes. I can get a hotel in Japan for for $50-90 depending on city size that are much nicer than most US hotels. >

The worst part is the false advertising of hotel prices a la airBNB, you look at a nice 85$ room and you have the room price+ amenity fee, resort fee, city fee or whatever thing they invent that day >

Thats why I don't use airbnb anymore. That and the possibility of hidden cameras