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Originally Posted by REO7990 View Post
If the general consensus here is to have tourists pay the lost revenue if/when amendment 3 passes, when will enough be enough in tourists minds and they skip going to Florida entirely? This was only part of my reasoning for a NO vote on Amendment 3.
"Skip" Florida and go where? Disneyworld Pyongyang??? Universal Kabul??? The proposal for Sumter Co. is a 2% tourist tax----the areas with the big attractions are already more than triple that---the tax is hardly a deterrent.