If you work for or with a government agency which funds a significant portion of its budget from local taxation, you should be looking at increasing bus tours in your area. As our world of sales, commerce and employment becomes smaller because of improved communication and travel, local taxation will become less and less practical in the future. Because of the increasing mobility, sales and businesses will simply move to areas with lower taxation.

This is already obvious in sales near state lines where buyers will travel a little extra in distance to pay lower taxes. In many areas, local speciality stores are already losing ground to stores on the World Wide Web. Attempts to tax internet activities have been held back by the fact that those activities could easily move to different and even foreign locations with a corresponding loss of jobs and technology.

The same problem is becoming more evident in manufacturing and assembly. Tax breaks to get a company to move into an area are typical. However, many manufacturing and assembly operations have left traditional industrial areas to move their jobs and commerce to areas with lower taxes. This same situation has been happening for years on a national basis as jobs and employment move to other countries which offer better conditions for the companies involved. We have increasingly become a society of consumers rather than producers because of busineesss moving to areas with lower taxes.

Increasing local taxation is the equivalent of putting weights on the ankles of your home basketball team to handicap them in a tournament. Business is like a tournament. The players will increasingly move to places where people do not put weights on their ankles so they can compete. Numerous other governments are willing to reduce taxes in order to entice jobs and commerce to move in.

One of the best solutions to this problem is increasing bus tours in your area. Bus tours are just the opposite of local taxation . . . they bring people and money in from other areas to create jobs and improve the economy in your area. A single bus tour can improve your local economy by as much as $5,000 to $10,000 each day.

It may be noteworthy that a state like Florida, where tourism represents as much as 10% of the local economy, does not have a state income tax.