Taxes and Gravity
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Travel and Places

I rented a campsite last weekend for one night (there are other pics up, go look).  I was surprised the State park even charges for simple tent sites, but it's only $12.  Fine.  I took the dogs and off we went.

Remember, this supposed to be camping.  There's no bellhop to haul my pack the 4 miles down to the lakeside spots.  And there sure as hell wasn't an escalator to make the climb back.

Room service?  Bring a fishing pole - they stock the lake.  And for climate control: wait for spring.  Yep, that's real outdoorsy camping stuff.  Nothing surprising about that.

What was surprising is that my $12 camp site came to $15.67.

They put state and local accomodations tax on the camp site!  The same taxes that apply to a steak dinner at a stuffed-suit-museum or a downtown hotel room are applied to a flat(ish) bit of dirt in the woods.  At least the sales tax wasn't compounded on the other taxes (I checked).


And it wasn't all that flat, as discovered when trying to sleep at a slight but annoying tilt.

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