Good letter, but it needs a couple clarifications. Aberdeen has been pushing for this for at least the last 15 years to no avail. Ask our legislators in Annapolis why they won't support it; you can't get an answer from them! My only concern is devoting so much of this income - when we finally get it - to tourism. In my opinion, Harford County doesn't the attractions to bring people here for an overnight stay. Think of Jerusalem Mill, the Promenade in Havre de Grace, the Liriodendron, and Ripken Stadium from September to June. Sorry tourism people, we just don't have it!

Susquehanna State Park is the oldest and largest state park in Maryland and is vastly underutilized. I'm guessing if the county had a tourism budget, Pop-K, it would have made your short list. We are a rural respite halfway between two of the largest urban centers in the world. If we build a tourism "path', visitors and revenue will follow.

Possibly we can come up with tourism ideas without a tax. What type of things do you expect when you travel? What in Harford County do we offer? What in Harford County are we lacking?

This is how government works. There is no plan; there isn't even a structure in place to ensure the money siphoned off people will end up paying for anything related to tourism. They collect the money first; reroute to whatever they want and then place hide the peanut if anyone ever asks.

Karl don't you know that for every dollar the government spends to attract tourism 40 more dollars come back. Ole' Biller loves to spin that yarn. I just can't understand why Biller and all his pro-tax brothers and sisters don't just throw in about $100,000 dollars of their own money and in no time they should be rolling in about $4 million in business. Of course when it comes to spending their own money, they are much more frugal and realistic.

All I'm asking is for transparency and something built into the system to ensure touristm dollars are spent on tourism...we all know you can define tourism in a million ridiculous ways; roads, bridges, sidewalks, water, my gosh - if you spent the money teacher bonuses you can even make a roundabout argument that ultimately it helps with tourism. When did we all begin to believe that the government's job was to step in for just about everything and do it with taxpayer dollars. It would not have been my grandfather's first inclination if he wanted to expand his business to ask the government for money.

If I sold say, ice cream… and I (and all my competitors) could charge my customers extra – all the while complaining about how I wish I didn’t have to do this to you – with the expectation that the proceeds would be used to promote tourism (i.e. pay my advertising for me) to bring in more ice cream patrons, why would I not be in favor of the idea? I see no need to state the obvious. My only confusion is why it’s referred to as a “tax” at all since it only benefits a subset of county business owners. The simple fact is that they cannot band together on their own to enact such a plan and must rely on the government to force it through “taxation” - and then hope it really goes where promised.

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