Now the WakeUp Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce just falls in line with the latest progressive fad making the rounds:
1. Using Wake County's children as instruments in a failed socio-economic diversity experiment.
2. Catering to the transgender lobby.
3. General downtown lackey.
4. Regressive sales tax transit cheerleaders.
The latest:
Now WakeUp lackey Tim Giuliani and the WakeUp Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce have jumped on the sports/tourism events bandwagon and the associated meal and hotel taxes.
But flashback to 1995 when the WakeUp Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce had a moment of intellectual honesty:
"To bolster his argument, Fetzer refereed to a year-old chamber study that concluded that civic projects such as basketball arenas, children's museums and performing arts centers do little to attract business."
"The April 1994 study by the chamber's Committee to Improve the Tax Base cited another recent study that found, to the chamber's surprise, that in business' location decisions, "factors that scored relatively low included access to rail, climate, recreational/cultural amenities."
"The study also says that "money spent on various social and cultural programs has a negative impact on local economies."
"... factors that scored relatively low included access to rail ..."
"... money spent on various social and cultural programs has a negative impact on local economies."
"... civic projects such as basketball arenas, children's museums and performing arts centers do little to attract business."
We agree with the WakeUp Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce that draining the local economy of billions of dollars through regressive sales, hotels and meals taxes does have an economic impact.
The WakeUp Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce is not capable of being honest however. The WakeUp/local progressive left would not allow it.
