[Garthur]

Originally Posted by McBain II

It's 2.5%, not 10%. Are you saying that you're one of those types that is literally going to drive to another city rather than spend a little extra? I'm sure I don't have to tell you that you're almost certainly spending more money by traveling.

Not sure what Suttle had to do with that. From what I remember (and I didn't follow it closely) OSC was looking to relocate for awhile and UNMC wanted the land anyway. Then there's this...




106-year-old steel company to build $12 million plant in Wahoo : Lincoln, NE Journal Star

I had restaurant recipes that show a 10% additional tax. I do not live in Omaha. Where I live it's about the same distance to Omaha or Lincoln, so because of the tax I went Lincoln and then spent my shopping dollars there instead of Omaha.

About OSC, It's easy to forget the largest screw up in the history of any mayor in Omaha's history.

[McBain II]

Originally Posted by Garthur

I had restaurant recipes that show a 10% additional tax. I do not live in Omaha. Where I live it's about the same distance to Omaha or Lincoln, so because of the tax I went Lincoln and then spent my shopping dollars there instead of Omaha.

About OSC, It's easy to forget the largest screw up in the history of any mayor in Omaha's history.

The sales tax in Omaha is 7%.

Current Sales and Use Tax Rates - Effective April 1, 2015

The restaurant tax is 2.5%

http://www.cityofomaha.org/finance/i...2020130401.pdf

I'm not sure if you saw 9.5% total and you're rounding up, but there is absolutely no question that the restaurant tax is only 2.5%. As for driving to Lincoln over Omaha, so be it, I guess. Your protest doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things and the restaurant tax has been a fiscal boon to the city.

You seem to have some sort of skin in the game when it comes to OSC, because you've spoken of it in a very hyperbolic sense but haven't really said anything of value, almost like you're trying to hide something. Personally, I don't see how OSC leaving is that big of a deal, and the biggest screw up in this city's history belongs to the outright massacre of Jobber's Canyon so that ConAgra could build that bloated suburban style campus in the heart of DTO. Fahey killing the high rise hotel that was planned under Daub is a close second. The loss of OSC isn't even a blip compared to that.