State government wants more North Carolinians to vacation in North Carolina. I thought one of the arguments or tourist taxes is that they get paid by other people. If state residents stay are the tourists then we pay the taxes ourselves, so there’s no benefit from the tourist tax and we just end up paying even more taxes. Now all the Lynn Minges and her minions in the state Commerce Department need is to subsidize in-state tourism with tax credits or maybe a tourist tax holiday, they could even include a clawback provision if you don’t buy enough tchotchkes.
