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hip, you’re obviously not hip. And who today even uses the word “hip” since it seems rather archaic? — dwbat
“Hotel Taxes Lost Due to City’s Internet Ineptitude” City Lights Posted March 22 Could some one explain? Are they looking to capture the hotel tax based on the prices located on the back of your hotel room door? The price that hotels are required to post so their isn’t any price gouging during a natural disaster? Thanks — Dustin Henry
That is what you get from your high price city workers. We give then high salaries and a gold plated retirement for poor work performances. It is the normal city hall screw up with nobody ever be held accountable for poor
performance. The city should just declare BK and fire all the clowns and start over. — boemac
Wrong; this can all be laid at the feet of city councils for not seeing what was coming and changing the statutes, a thing that has to be voted on anyway.
— Strelnikov
Dustin, the way I read this is: EXPEDIA online buys a block of rooms from HOLI- DAY INN for $30 a night and then sells them online for $100 a night. Holiday Inn is selling the rooms for $30 in the eyes of the City of San Diego Treasurer Tax Collector and that’s the value they tax. With a hotel tax around 16.5% that means the city would col- lect $5 in tax instead of the $16 you would pay booking directly with Holiday Inn and this difference is what the people in the article think of as “free cash” being wasted. Problem is, any tax
increase will need a public vote and 2/3 voter approval. So why is the Hotel Motel industry on board with this? Well, Holiday Inn is selling that room to Expedia not for $30 but actually $35 since Expedia is paying for the SD-TTC tax. If the tax gets passed upstream, Holi- day Inn can now sell that for $35 and keep 100% for itself. Suddenly a 16.5% bet- ter deal for the hotel motel selling its spare rooms into the online secondary market.
— davebabb94
“A Dystopia of Sorts” Cover story Posted February 22 Well written and researched article that shines a light on what’s happening down in the South bay. We need more of these types of sto- ries that can open our eyes to our communities and affect change. Thanks.
— rz2 “Rainy Winter Causes
Streets to Crumble” City Lights Posted February 22 I made a claim to the City of San Diego when I hit a pot hole on Miramar Road during a storm, The pool of water and and the wet road look the same at night. It bent both whhels on the left side of the car and knocked the front and rear out of alignment. The city claimed that they had fixed that pot hole within 3 days and denied my claim. My insurance company counted it as an accident becasue it did more than $1000 dam- age to my car. — Charles Hurley
“Stadium Payoffs” Under the Radar Posted February 22 Not surprised McMillin is involved in this, given the skill they demonstrated for bait-and-switch in devel- oping Liberty Station as a high-end enclave rather than promised affordable housing. I guarantee, without some
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kind of public oversight or lawsuit, this will be the big- gest giveaway of municipal public land for private benefit this century.
— Cassander
Go there this weekend and see many thousands enjoying using the city property, and paying rent. Dont let devel- opers steal it, and throw out Ace Parking. — CaptainObvious
I really, really despise this notion that someone who follows the law and legally pays the minimum tax pos- sible is seen to somehow be “cheating” and depriving government of much-needed funds.
— jnojr
“Like Trump, like Bersin” Under the Radar Posted February 22 Border security is impor- tant but if you want to con- trol illegal immigration go after the employers that hire them. No jobs no need to
immigrate. The business community wants immi- gration legal and illegal. Immigrants are willing to work for less, are afraid of authority, are easily intimi- dated and are ignorant of labor laws. Employers want to keep the labor pool large because it keeps labor costs down. Employers whine about the minimum wage but in reality they use the minimum wage as a ceil- ing not a floor. As immi- grants assimilate into the mainstream they become a threat to the low wage low/ no benefit employers who rely on a constant supply of immigrants to replace the immigrants that preceded them and are now wanting decent pay and benefits and full time employment. — AlexClarke
“Ten Household Employ- ees”?! How many people does it take to help Bersin put on his shoes and get dressed daily?
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