{"id":3580,"date":"2007-02-01T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:43:41","slug":"jim-doyle-embraces-precursor-to-tourism-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/jim-doyle-embraces-precursor-to-tourism-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Doyle Embraces Precursor to Tourism Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=560256\" target=\"_new\">Governor on-board for $13 rental tax<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Jim Doyle will back a $13 increase in the rental car tax to pay for new commuter trains connecting Milwaukee to its southern suburbs and to Racine and Kenosha, a Doyle spokesman said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three-county increase was recommended Tuesday by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority. If the Legislature approves, the RTA&#8217;s portion of the rental car tax in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties would rise from $2 to $15, in addition to other state and county taxes that total up to <b>22.6% of each car rental<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Local officials love to fleece the visitors to their fair locales.  And when the tourists stop coming because they don&#8217;t want to be fleeced any more, local officials spring into action to expend tax dollars to promote tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Because the source of all goodness is also the goal of all goodness.  Tax money, thy symmetry is holy.  Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor on-board for $13 rental tax: Gov. Jim Doyle will back a $13 increase in the rental car tax to pay for new commuter trains connecting Milwaukee to its southern suburbs and to Racine and Kenosha, a Doyle spokesman said Wednesday. The three-county increase was recommended Tuesday by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18283,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions\/18283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}