Something Completely Different!

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The travel taxes piss me off. Everyone taxes the people who travel to their city whenever they can figure out how to do it.

I forget the exact deal with Las Vegas, but on the car rental, there was like a 6% sales tax plus another roughly 3% tax for some other government entity plus an outrageous 12% or so tax that seemed to be made up. Maybe it was called something like an "airport car rental tax" or something like that. It was basically just a tax on tourists. I should track down that invoice and give you the real numbers. It was unreal. It added up to 20-25% in taxes on the car rental.

That sort of a tax is easy to pass, because you are taxing other people. Few voters will be opposed to taxing the shit out of other people.