What We Need Is TAX EXEMPT Vacations! (unemployment rate, Canada, cost)

[KevK]

One of the hardest hit segments of the economy has been tourism. That is why Las Vegas has an unemployment rate like Detroit and massive new hotels sit half build and empty.
I got this idea when we went to Canada. To encourage tourism, Canada pays visitors back ALL the sales and GST taxes they paid while there. You fill out a form and they send you a cheque.
Why not allow Americans to deduct the FULL cost of a vacation as long as it was at least 200 miles from their home and inside the USA? And also TAX business double for any vacation time an employee does not use to encourage them to make sure employees use the time off.
I think this might make more people travel and take time off and less people take foreign vacations which would not be deductible.

[Cyber Queen]

Now this is an idea I could actually agree with you on. The only issue is that you would be taking many of those taxes from local municipalities, which NEED the money to assist with vacationers.

[Frank DeForrest]

Smaller gov., less taxes and skip the feel good gimmicks that are designed to make it seem like they (the guv) care.