Tweak a bureaucrat -- 5 minute activism

[Porcupine Realtor]

"5-Minute Activist" Opportunity

Fellow Activists,

Here's a fun way to tweak a bureaucrat.  Visit the website below and fill out their survey, in which the NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development ostensibly invites public input about their Soviet-inspired 10-year plan for increasing tourism to the state.

www.visitnh.com/tenyearplan

Here are the responses I submitted to open-ended questions.  Please add your own pro-free-market ideas, many of which these people have certainly never heard.

The state should play as small a role as possible.  Let the free market respond to offer what tourists want.  Those wants are always changing, and a 10-year plan is too bureaucratic and slow-moving.
Keep taxes low!  Lower the hotel tax.  Lower property taxes so B&B's, rental houses, restaurants and other businesses can keep their prices low, thus attracting repeat tourist business.
Hello!  Where were you this past winter, with its record-breaking snowfall?  So-called global warming is not a proven fact.  It's a "politically correct" theory.  It should have absolutely NO PLACE in any decisions that the bureaucrats make.
Industry and related stakeholders will adapt on their own.  The State should keep its nose out of technology and industry.  If you want TRUE progress, reduce the burdensome regulations and taxation that drives businesses away!
How can government remove the barriers to business growth that it has put in over the years, as mentioned above?

If you want to get more involved, you can attend some of the public hearing meetings they will hold this summer and fall.

By the way, most cities, Manchester included, have their own local central-planning gangs plotting to extort your money for their Potemkin Village schemes.  We should be keeping a watchful eye on them.

Mark Warden
Porcupine Realtor

[Pat K]

 

[Free libertarian]

 I read the "survey".  Looks like a job justification piece.  They will work very hard to impose their vision
with your money.  They don't know how to do it any other way....but 'cmon it's for your own good! 

[DigitalWarrior]

My answers
2. In order to remain competitive, how can we maintain or improve the quality of the tourism experience for our visitors? What role should industry, related stakeholders, and/or the State play?
Lower state spending, which will enable the state to lower taxes.  The wholesale firing of the NH Division of Travel & Tourism would be a start.

5. What other issues does the tourism industry need to consider as we plan for achieving our vision of excellence over the next 10 years?
The idea of central planning has been proven to be a failure and should be relegated to the dustbin of "really bad ideas in history". 

[AnarchoJesse]

My answers
2. In order to remain competitive, how can we maintain or improve the quality of the tourism experience for our visitors? What role should industry, related stakeholders, and/or the State play?
Lower state spending, which will enable the state to lower taxes.  The wholesale firing of the NH Division of Travel & Tourism would be a start.

5. What other issues does the tourism industry need to consider as we plan for achieving our vision of excellence over the next 10 years?
The idea of central planning has been proven to be a failure and should be relegated to the dustbin of "really bad ideas in history". 

I just laughed out loud to number 2.

[Russell Kanning]

that was funny
how could technology hurt tourism ... except used by government?
maybe they could kick the TSA out of the manchester airport and get rid of taxes ... that would be a great selling point for NH

[Dave Ridley]

done

[doobie]

1) The TSA will make people not want to travel by plane.  Roads will get too congested and widening the roads will just mean more people and the loss of the way of life of NH.

2) Lower taxes, lower spending.  Less *is* more.  Get rid of the more expensive and un-needed government offices (schools, police depts, tourism, parking).

3) Global warming?!?  Huh?!? What?!?!  My oil bill says otherwise...and so did my back from shovelling snow!

Most of the problems is likely caused by the currently extended solar minimum. 

4) The TSA can learn to screw people when they drive too!  Get the state out of tourism/security and put it back in the hands of the people.

5) Free-market is the best solution.  Get rid of regulation, get rid of government control.  Let the market decide.  Anything else is the equivalent of an accounting fudging the numbers.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

1. Industry should adopt policy that makes travellers feel comfortable. Stakeholders in the travel infrastructure should address all issues preventing them from doing this and satisfying their customers. The State should stay out of the free market - the federal TSA has certainly made me cancel trips to New Hampshire (and with gas prices this high, that leaves walking. Only one person is doing that that I know of.)

2. To stay competitive, the government people at the federal, state and municipal level need to relinquish their monopolies over many services. You can't have competition if your would-be competitors fear fines, jail and violence if they compete.

3. I don't want to travel to a state that has bureaucrats trying to legislate away an irrelevant problem. If global warming is happening (which I doubt) the state should deregulate and allow companies to find meaningful ways to address this on a voluntary basis. Protecting the environment is something everyone is interested in, legislatures passing laws taking money from people to address problems people are clear they'll support voluntarily makes me fear visiting New Hampshire.

4. Technology is merely a tool, it makes the aims and goals of those who possess it come about more quickly. Given that, the only way it can be harmful is in the hands of government people. No other group of people routinely steals money from people, sends them to jail for being peaceful and destroys by bureaucratic parasitism the wealth it deals with.

The State can protect the tourism industry by staying out of it and leaving it to those who provide things that people actually WANT.

5. How to bolster the tourism industry; restore it to it's proper role, free of government medling. I fully expect that if tourism is your true goal, you'll expediently abolish the state and federal government's role in it New Hampshire's wonderful tourism industry.