-=> Quoting Ml:nicolae Ceausescu@dss to Emerald <=-
 MC> paid by foreign or domestic tourists. In fact, the US taxes all
 MC> tourists MORE in the form of absurd bed taxes and high car rental taxes
 MC> at airports. 
 
  I'm well aware of that and IF I'd have been told beforehand that NH didn't 
  have state taxes and ME did I might not have been staying in ME for my 
  vacation, I'd have rented a cottage to stay in for my vacation in NH. Oh 
  well I really enjoyed the place I did stay so all was not lost, eh.
 MC> I read an article about why car rental taxes are so much
 MC> higher at airports than at off airport locations. The reason is that
 MC> airport renters. Any are usually out of state residents and cannot get
 MC> back at the local politicians at the ballot box. The higher car rental
 MC> taxes are simply disguised as "airport surcharges."
 
  From what I've heard about airport car rentals in both Canada and the US 
  is that car rentals are higher priced to begin with.  Nope out of any where
  visitors can only get back at the politicians in the ballot box if some idiot
  doesn't get back at the same politician/s you do, eh.  Something I take a
  kind of pleasure in even if the one I didn't cast my ballot for wins and I
  hear someone complaining about him/her.  I ask him/her if they took the few 
  minutes to cast a ballot and they say, "no."  I grin and say, "Quit your
  complaining then, you lost your right to complain when you didn't cast your
  ballot, I did and sure didn't vote for whoever and if there weren't so many like
  you in the world there might not be anything to complain about."  
 MC> Our nice customs probably do the same, although I have had only
 MC> positive experiences from both customs when I drive across the border
 MC> alone. Now, when Cristina, who is from Brazil, was with me, it was
 MC> another story. She saw me being persecuted by my own gov't at the
 MC> border! -!-
  I've seen that happen on both sides of the fence, so what you've just told 
  me comes as no surprise to me, eh, Nicolae.  Maybe one day  those nice customs
  officials wll be on the opposite end of the stick and find out how it feels
  when it happens to them, eh.  >;>~~~~~~~~
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