I understand this paper needs sponsors but I am of the opposite opinion on Article 4, No on 4.
We're 45 years residents of Bar Harbor. We operated a music store in town for 35 years, we put on 20 Dulcimer and Harp Festivals, our store was on West Street, next to Ocean Properties.
We owned shorefront but we have never dissembarked passengers from cruise ships.
I don't understand if the Town has disembarked passengers why those passengers couldn't disembark onto the town pier as they used to or to our area at the ferry terminal that the town owns!
Seems like we are shooting ourselves in the foot related to revenue.
From what I understand the foreign flagged cruise ships might pay as little as 1% tax to the government where as US corporations pay around 28% tax both federal and state
taxes.
We knew exactly what we were voting for when we voted for the 1,000 disembarkment cap.
Cruise ships, big smokie things, here today and gone tomorrow.
I had someone tell me that Bar Harbor residents could ride free of charge on the CAT. I find this hard to believe but stranger things have happened. Any truth to this??
I understand this paper needs sponsors but I am of the opposite opinion on Article 4, No on 4.
We're 45 years residents of Bar Harbor. We operated a music store in town for 35 years, we put on 20 Dulcimer and Harp Festivals, our store was on West Street, next to Ocean Properties.
We owned shorefront but we have never dissembarked passengers from cruise ships.
I don't understand if the Town has disembarked passengers why those passengers couldn't disembark onto the town pier as they used to or to our area at the ferry terminal that the town owns!
Seems like we are shooting ourselves in the foot related to revenue.
From what I understand the foreign flagged cruise ships might pay as little as 1% tax to the government where as US corporations pay around 28% tax both federal and state
taxes.
We knew exactly what we were voting for when we voted for the 1,000 disembarkment cap.
Cruise ships, big smokie things, here today and gone tomorrow.
Vote No on Article 4.
I had someone tell me that Bar Harbor residents could ride free of charge on the CAT. I find this hard to believe but stranger things have happened. Any truth to this??