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Maine: Tourist dollars up as visits drop off
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Posted on 04/30/2005 9:26:46 AM PDT by SheLion
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I don't care how they spin it! When 25-30% of the tourist smoke, and word got out that Maine was forced to go smoke-free, tourists will take their money to another smoker friendly state!
A tourist can no longer have a cigarette in a restaurant, bar, nightclub, sports inn, tavern, bowling alley in the state of Maine.
The economist are nuts if they think this has nothing to do with the revenue.
Partnership For A Tobacco Free Maine is choking the economy! Like it or not!
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:26:50 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: Just another Joe; Madame Dufarge; MeeknMing; steve50; KS Flyover; Cantiloper; metesky; kattracks; ..
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:27:29 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
Been to Maine and will never be going back. I don't have anything in common with any NE states.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:36:33 AM PDT
by
jec41
(Screaming Eagle)
To: jec41; SheLion
You where there at the wrong time of the year there is nothing better when it is -20 degrees F, no wind blowing and 10 inches of fresh snow and now where to go but get the paper.
Start designing the house this AM
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:41:37 AM PDT
by
dts32041
(Two words that shouldn't be used in the same sentence Grizzly bear and violate.)
To: SheLion
I have been to Maine a couple of times and it is a nice state...but it stinks...smells like a rotten egg fart in a lot of the rural areas due to nasty factories...and the root beer looking water in Augusta is the grossest thing I have ever seen..Granted there are some really nice places. But I'll take the smell of good old cow manure over the stench I smelled there...They have taken care of inside air pollution...maybe they should consider cleaning up outside air as well.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:42:16 AM PDT
by
leenie312
To: jec41
Been to Maine and will never be going back. I don't have anything in common with any NE states.It's your time and your dime. You have to go to a place where you are comfortable. Why spend your money on a vacation that you hate? I don't blame you.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:43:46 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: leenie312
You must have stayed near a paper mill.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:46:21 AM PDT
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.And we're unlikely to get a look into this t)
To: dts32041
You where there at the wrong time of the year there is nothing better when it is -20 degrees F, no wind blowing and 10 inches of fresh snow and now where to go but get the paper.
Chill Brrrrrrrrrrrrr
hehheh!
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:46:22 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: leenie312
They have taken care of inside air pollution...maybe they should consider cleaning up outside air as well.If the Rats in Maine take care of anything else, they may as well give us back to Canada.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:47:40 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
An old man had lived his whole life in a small cabin on the Maine and New Hampshire border. A survey had just been completed and he was informed that he actually did not live in Maine, but rather in New Hampshire. His response was, "Thank goodness! I dont think I could endure another Maine winter."
To: SheLion
Yep come to Maine and let us be your Nanny for your tourest dollars. Tax em, bore em, and control em they will like us.. Not.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:50:09 AM PDT
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.And we're unlikely to get a look into this t)
To: cowtowney
An old man had lived his whole life in a small cabin on the Maine and New Hampshire border. A survey had just been completed and he was informed that he actually did not live in Maine, but rather in New Hampshire. His response was, "Thank goodness! I dont think I could endure another Maine winter."Oh! LOL!
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:51:27 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:54:06 AM PDT
by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: armymarinemom
Yep come to Maine and let us be your Nanny for your tourest dollars. Tax em, bore em, and control em they will like us.. Not.
Maine: Baldacci to put own plan on list of tax overhaul proposals ~ Look Out!
Stick it to the tourist this year between May and October. Pass the word!
Stick it to our tourist again! Can't smoke in Maine plus their vacations in this state will cost even more with taxes.May through October is STICK IT TO THE TOURIST AGAIN season!
Thank you Rep. Sean Faircloth, D-Bangor! You are such a RAT!
Rep. Sean Faircloth, D-Bangor, suggests hiking taxes on beer, wine, bar drinks and cigarettes, boosting the meals and lodging tax during the months of May through October, establishing a soft drinks tax and raising the income level at which the highest marginal rate would apply.
Or this idiot's statement:Rep. John Eder, a Green party lawmaker from Portland, would apply the sales tax to tourism-related categories and direct new revenue toward targeted property tax relief.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:55:08 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: expatguy
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:56:15 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
When 25-30% of the tourist smoke, and word got out that Maine was forced to go smoke-free, tourists will take their money to another smoker friendly state!
Or province. Maine's coast is like the Riviera for Quebeckers--their kids actually go in the ocean. And those people smoke like chimneys.
To: HostileTerritory
Or province. Maine's coast is like the Riviera for Quebeckers--their kids actually go in the ocean. And those people smoke like chimneys.Well, so far they are safe. They can still smoke outside. Maine sure is state run! :(
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:59:46 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: armymarinemom; SheLion
You must have stayed near a paper mill.Yep, or a tanning mill like I was near when I attended St. Francis College in Biddeford. Wonder if it's still there.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
04/30/2005 10:01:05 AM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: SheLion
Hey the flat-landers have to pay for something don't they, how do they expect LL Bean and tom's toothpaste to keep for MPR and MPTV?
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posted on
04/30/2005 10:01:18 AM PDT
by
dts32041
(Two words that shouldn't be used in the same sentence Grizzly bear and violate.)
To: SheLion
Well, Maine has arguably the highest tax burden *in the country*. The Dims have been excusing that by saying that it is mostly out-of-staters that are bearing the brunt of that - with sales tax, meals tax and high property taxes on waterfront vacation homes.
Well, that argument doesn't sound too good now!
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posted on
04/30/2005 10:05:10 AM PDT
by
Fido969
(God? I'm not quite sure of what God is. I know what God isn't. God isn't me.)
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