Taxing Nothing

From Nicholas Johnson's FromDC2Iowa blog:

When last we addressed the public-private gambling casino in Riverside (that is, public investment, private profit), we were trying to figure out why on earth the voters would want to impose a hotel-motel tax on a community that, among other things, has no hotel or motel to which it would apply -- since they'd already exempted the Riverside gambling casino from ever having to pay such a tax, and the casino owns and operates the only hotel in town. Especially was this confusing given that, apparently, the tax will ultimately end up going back to the casino. Oh, well.

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