Chaffee’s Magical Tax
Plenty of bad ideas were tossed about at the candidate at the forum on Monday night, but this one from council hopeful Doug Chaffee takes the cake:
So according to Chaffee, doubling the hotel tax in the middle of a recession will bring more hotels and visitors into the area. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of logic behind his idea, but perhaps that’s why he calls it “magical.”
Chaffee pushes the idea further by suggesting that Fullerton should “generate” (aka subsidize) a new hotel to compete with Disneyland, the most famous theme park in the entire world.
Of course we’re later reassured by Chaffee that the tax would only be tacked on to “other people” who make the mistake of taking brief refuge in our city. That’s the old divide-and-conquer tax scheme that’s plagued California businesses for a long time: levy heavy taxes against each industry, one at a time. Who’s next?
Hey Doug, a tax is a tax, and there has never been a worse time to raise taxes. And quit trying to convince us that we should be more like Anaheim.
Well, there you have the classic liberal mindset. Subsidize, tax, subsidize some more.
Fortunately, I don’t think we have a lot to worry about. This chowderhead came in dead last in his two previous attempts at office as he burned though his trust fund.
If you watch the full video (http://bit.ly/bWzk0y), not the edited video posted in this blog, you’ll see that Chaffee never mentioned increasing a tax.
On the contrary Chaffee points out that Fullertons “bed tax” is LOWER in Fullerton than surrounding cities.
He goes on explaining that our lower tax rate gives Fullerton a competitive advantage in attracting business, jobs, etc.
Chaffee is using our lower taxes as incentive to attract jobs to Fullerton. Thats a great idea.
We need this kind of thinking on the city council.
http://bit.ly/bWzk0y
What a nut. Even the dumbest of the dumb Democrats have figured out that it’s time to shut up about tax increases. He must live in some kind of liberal love-bubble.
It’s not a tax, it’s “revenue.”
Yeah, revenue at the cost of our businesses, which are already hurting. Chaffee is one of the scariest people in this race. If he gets past PC, we’re doomed to continue being a lethargic city. Isn’t he supported by the Friends of WCH? That could give him a boost. We better watch this one closely.
If he wants to provide revenue for the City, then approve the WCH project, which also generates jobs, which is what is REALLY needed to effect any change!
There’s something about the way he says “The magic of bed tax? You get to keep all of it” that just creeps me out.
Was this thing dubbed from Japenese or something? His lips don’t match.
Wow a Disneyland hotel paid for by tax payers in Fullerton!?! I know just the spot Euclid and Orangethrope. The city council can just take the land. The old hotel is a blight anyways!
Watching this piece makes me happy I didn’t attend a neighborhood get together in support of Chaffee. We live on the same street, unfortunately.
Besides his idea being totally stupid, Chaffee needs to get his facts straight. Fullerton’s bed tax is 10%. Strike one. Chaffee claims Fullerton receives 1% sales tax revenue. No, Fullerton gets 0.75%. Strike two.
Anaheim has approx 150 hotels and 20,000 hotel rooms. I did a little research and counted 8 hotels in Fullerton with 1109 rooms total.
Gee Doug, no wonder Anaheim generates $90 million in bed taxes. They have 20 times the hotels we do, and much higher demand. We don’t match up to Anaheim in this area, never have, never will. Strike three.
You’re living in a fantasy world, Doug…
Wow, some real intelligence coming through. Nicely done, Unocal! Well said!!! Thank you for clarifying the facts!
tax cuts are also a subsidy, the reality government services need to be paid for just like any other business, but pensions do need to drastically be cut
Tax cuts across the board would be a good start.
The only way this guy can get elected is by rallying all of the boohoo vote. 100% of it. And hoping all the lefties bullet vote for him.
It hasn’t worked for him yet.
Whew! Ok, that gives me hope. Thanks, Joe.
tax cuts across the board are just like a giant stimulus package, there is no difference between the two, in fact tax cuts stimulate the economy slower than a traditional stimulus, you people need to take an economics course.
Except that artificial stimulation Obama-style is just a tactic to keep government employees on the payroll and make local governments more dependent on federal largess than ever.
Tax cuts create instant disposable income that can be used by the original owner to do whit what he will. That’s called freedom. Many people are terrified of it.
I spent thirty minutes listening to parts of the entire debate. The clear winner in my opinion was Barry Levinson. Marty Burbank would be second. I like Barry because he’s a no nonsense kind of guy.
Marty is a decent candidate too, but his idea for revenue generation was just plain weak. I realize being on the spot like that, it’s hard to put your best foot forward. But listen starting at 30:06 when Marty suggests a possible revenue source in lieu of taxation. His idea is to put recycle bins all over the City and use a private recycling company who will share the revenue. If you gathered up all the cans and bottles collected by low-income and homeless people in this city, and then took 50% or 33% of the revenue, you’ll have enough cash to buy the City Council a pack of bubble gum every week. C’mon Marty, I know you can think of better ideas than that.
If you watch the full video (http://bit.ly/bWzk0y), not the edited video posted in this blog, you’ll see that Chaffee never mentioned increasing a tax.
On the contrary Chaffee points out that Fullertons “bed tax” is LOWER in Fullerton than surrounding cities.
He goes on explaining that our lower tax rate gives Fullerton a competitive advantage in attracting business, jobs, etc.
Chaffee is using our lower taxes as incentive to attract jobs to Fullerton. Thats a great idea.
We need this kind of thinking on the city council.
http://bit.ly/bWzk0y