Las Vegas: Not Broke Enough

Come on Kate! That new tax money will go to make Nevada a better place, and it will become so much better that people will be banging down the door to get in to those hotels and pay that new hight tax!!!

Won't they?

Harry Reid country. Never pass up an opportunity to create or raise taxes. This is obviously a mental disconnect that the Nevada lawmakers manifest. Isn't business already down 25% in Vegas before this tax? Talk about pouring gasoline on the self-immolation.

It sure was a lot cheaper to go to Vegas when the mob ran the place. The unelected mob that is.

Vegas is home to one of the highest real estate foreclosure rates. I don't think a 3% room tax would hurt that much. I mean $200 a night or $206 isn't a deal breaker as much as a punishment. I think with all the matching 'free' money from afar, tax increases solves short term interests. I don't agree with that by the way. Wait for cap and trade, New Vegas Solar Light City.

Hey speedy do you think people might not go to vegas cause the costs just went over the top?
what a fool!!!!!!

Aren't the US taxpayers going to build a high-speed Obamatrain between Vegas and LA so all those wealthy Californians can recreationally commute back and forth?

You know, with all the material, I suggest you set up a whole new site called juxtapose.smalldeadanimals.com!

oops, sorry Speedy, I guess I should learn how to read.

$200 a night for a Vegas hotel room, speedy? You need to learn how to gamble and get your rooms comp'd.

Government to the rescue!!

Where do you think that hotel bail-out money comes from?

Speedy: if something cost more people will spend less on it. If your goal is to reduce its consumption then tax away nut when it is a pivotal part of your business to sell more reduce not increase taxes on it. While 3% doesnot sound like much on a per room basis - for a corporate purchase of say twohundred rooms for five days it could see that purchase being cut back to 194 rooms and thus the 3% tax ends up costing the govt way more in other tax revenues (from gambling for instance).

the big hotel people sent a letter to congress begging them to reconsider talking down the business travel industry. time to tell those assholes that they work for them. if they work against them then they will be removed.

Exactly why Donald Trump is seeking a bailout for his casinos……….

Just like the banks, auto industry, porno industry, mortgage deadbeats and race based social engineering project groups!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,495425,00.html

You gotta love socialist America where anyone can get rich and seek a bailout from a bankrupt government if it all falls apart.

Where does the bread and butter middle class fit into all of this? “Get back to fu*king work you lazy good for nothing “N*ggers”!

The authors of their own tragedy. More unintended consequences from the ill formed damaged brains of so called ‘Smart” Politicians. Like Red Ed here in Alberta. Say's he's going to get rid of health care payments. Indeed he does, than just transfers them to Blue Cross Plans for employee's or employers to have to pay. Its not like the homeless where anyway, nor the poor. The old switch & bait.
Another great idea by Eddy was to make selling cigarettes illegal in any store that sells smokes if they have a pharmacy. This after he made owners put curtains around them as if idols. I guess they forgot to tell the smokers. Now the people I know are going to the black market & finding it cheaper, if not more reliable to buy from them. You see the supply died because no one is willing to drive 10 miles to buy them. Thanks Ed for a bigger Illegal underground market with way , way less taxes now for other things. Swift move.

Now you have folks in the tourist industry's own politicians in Nevada raising taxes against visitors in an economic crunch. Makes sense, sorta, maybe, Somewhat, Kinda ... hey its money for us Senators. To hell with the People of Nevada or Vegas. As long we get a bigger take. Next session, senate pay hikes.
JMO

Had a chat with a friend in the business supply business today! (think BIG)

Interestingly enough .... their company which is US based, has canceled three major corporate events already this year.

Vegas was the location for TWO of them.

Even if the events are important to the company and planned / budgeted for they are concerned about the optics. Everybody loses... the customers... the suppliers .... the rest of the industry ... the would be host cities and everyone connected to the industry.

This is the fallout of the big economic chill being promoted by those LOSERs in Washington.

BTW - if the US unemployment rate is about 7% (not sure exactly) .... then just what is the value of the 93% who ARE working?

Why are the Dems and the MSM ignoring that fact?

I understand why it is not a good thing. When the financial organisations cancelled the Vegas trip it sent a chill. Vegas is going to pay for it. The room tax is such a minor thing. The various governments may get more from the poker machines all over the place.

You are missing the point completely Speedy on the tax increase.

The state shouldn't be increasing taxes, they should be decreasing them by cutting their own friggin spending (not to mention size)!!

Geesh ... why is it okay to always get it from both ends to some of you. Why don't you demand more from your government .... like only having 1/2 of them around!

sarge here them damn nevadians just like the traitor south suck at the trough of the government and tax payers of other more prosperous and dare sarge say better educated states time for them boys to pay their own way tax the rooms tax the gambling reciepts whatever it takes thar in nevada just dont use the sarges tax money to subsidie one ofthe more worthless locals in all america personally sarge never could tell why anyone would go to vegas anyway but go there they do

Word from the guy who delivers my water is the $100 minimum VIP tables were -empty- when he was there a couple weeks ago. Lots of casino staff saying how quiet things were.

Things going to get a bunch quieter, I'd say.