Come for the taxes, stay for your funeral.
The transient occupancy tax — and any other tax on travelers at a higher rate than the local sales tax — ought to be ruled unconstitutional. Nominal grounds: an interference with interstate commerce. Actual grounds: taxation without representation.
Yes, and add in the up-charges for Union hotels and you ahve an Event managers nightmare.
Corruption doesn’t come cheap.
It covers the 38% graft to the mob.
One may wonder why Kansas City is there with much more attractive venues.
it is because KC is the dead center of the country (by air). That makes logistics really easy for putting together large gatherings of nationwide firms.
I spent almost a year in KC and it was the longest 10 years of my life.
When we have to visit Chicago, we fill up in Indiana and buy a lunch to take into the city. We do our business and get out.
Our goal is usually to not spend any money there or get caught in gang related crossfire.
Well, honestly the killings are almost entirely in the poor neighborhoods.
The downtown area is completely gentrified and safe.
My favorite Chicago tax is on the rental vehicles ANYWHERE in the upper half of the state. I have no idea how they pulled that one off.
My second favorite Chicago trick is how they sold off 20 years of street parking rights to a private company for billions of dollars, which they then blew thru in a year.
The private company then immediately doubled the rates and quadrupled+ the enforcement.
Yes, and add in the up-charges for Union hotels and you have an Event managers nightmare.
If the thieves don’t take your money the city will... gotta love cities run by democrats...