Posted on 05/17/2016 11:54:07 AM PDT by upchuck
You’ve got two possible paths for that tourism:
Either it was driven by the show, which means your bubble just burst, hope you don’t know anybody that went in debt to capitalize on it in the future.
Or the bubble continues, which means it wasn’t driven by the show.
And frankly, other analysis have been done that include things like tourism bumps, the verdict is in. Giving incentives to TV programs is a money LOSER, even with tourism bumps that usually don’t happen. Sorry unless Nashville bucks ALL the trends the “investment” was 100% completely wasted, they ALWAYS lose money.
Correct! We live in Colorado and the last 3 trips we made to the East Coast, we managed to stop in Nashville and spend our tourist dollars. We even visited the “Bluebird”.
The investment has already been paid back 10-fold. Case closed.
Ideology is good. Reality is better.
No it hasn’t, you’re making up numbers. Reality is good, you should visit it sometime.
I quit watching because of all the fornication, adultery and sodomy.
Old: In God We Trust
New: You Owe Me an Apology
So, she basically played herself in the series?
Articles like this fail to differentiate from public subsidies (actually forking over taxpayer money) and tax reductions which means taking less of what otherwise wouldn’t be. Taxpayers do not lose on tax reductions if the business would not be there without the reduction. A 100% tax rate on nothing would still yield nothing.
This one though was an actual “forking over” style subsidy, and it worked. No one in this town, Republican or Democrat, doesn’t think this was the best money our wildly spendthift ex-Mayor Karl Dean spent.
Other than this cat at the Beacon Center, which is a think tank that does a lot of useful stuff, but he’s just dead wrong on this particular one.
Exactly. And (per one of the talk radio guys):
Old:Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave
New: Oer the land of the free, better safe than sorry.
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