The Raleigh city council voted (5 to 3) to provide $350,000 of hotel, motel, food tax money annually to pay people to use the facility, otherwise known as “incentives.” In other words, we pay for the facility, we pay for the hotel and now we pay people to use the facility. The “Great Space Race” has escalated to the point that there is so much space available that cities must pay people to use it.
Oh, I forgot, only the out-of-town visitors pay the tax.
(The County Commissioners vote on this one was 5 – 1, with Coble as the lone dissenter.)
