The Backpack Tax

[Benton]

(08-13-2019, 06:30 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Taxing tents is just going to mostly be hurting the homeless. Wealthier people are renting places, or getting a RV/Camper.

Kids use backpacks to go to school, which is nothing to do with backpacking in nature. If you restrict it to just trail backpacks, people are just going to buy nice non-trail backpacks and use them.

Both proposed taxes will end up just hurting people who aren't your targeted crowd. You also run the risk of creating financial incentive for kids, who are already going outdoors less and less, to stay inside rather than enjoy the outdoors and exercise.

And in many cities now, those Lodgers pay a tourism lodging tax.

I used to be opposed to it as the tax would largely hit families with school age children. Now that our gun violence solution largely hangs on banning backpacks, I guess I don't care as much.