Question of the Day - 22 May 2020

Don't forget about the car rental taxes, taxi taxes, the reduction in tax from food, beverage and hotel, gasoline taxes (people driving less) and the upcoming change to the unemployment tax rates and base (for employers (and especially for employers who laid off staff)).  In Illinois commercial property owners can even protest their real property tax based on sales/income earned from the prior year.  Yea it's real ugly and based on some taxes paid and calculated in arrears, the full extent won't be known for a while.

All 50 states are losing millions of dollars due to businesses being closed or operating at lower volume. That means quarterly income tax payments are way down. People are laid off or working less, they have less income to spend and they will be paying less personal income tax to the state. So money to the states for various things like sales tax, hunting/fishing/camping, state parks etc will be lots lower. Just about every economic thing you can think of has been affected badly. Places that depend on tourism like Las Vegas, Hawaii, Florida etc are doing much less business, which means a lot less revenue for every state. But their budgets still expect the same amount of money as last year so they can pay for all the programs and the state employee's salaries with benefits. There will be bigtime pressure for states to get more money by increasing property tax, income tax, sales tax, drivers license fees, license plate fees, gasoline tax and other things. It will all get considered.

some countries have a departure tax, they tax you when you leave.  "Leaving Las Vegas" tax next?  and what if you didn't think ahead and keep enough to pay the tax?  that could be a lot dishes needing washing.

As Rok said, all 50 states are losing, but the residual affect of people being out of work and struggling, is that there is much less spendable income available, too. And if anyone, (state, city, or business) tries to recover the money too fast by raising prices and/or taxes, they may lose even more clientele. The only real solution is to slowly recultivate the business that was lost, write off what was missed, and rebuild. The reason they got away with all the excess fees was because the economy was good and people just held their nose and grudgingly accepted it. That may not happen when the economy isn't so good, and money is tighter.

How much more money is in people's pockets because they haven't been able to throw it away in the casinos?

Well, the government did send $1200 to millions of people, and a good portion of them are retired so they aren't out of work and struggling to get by. A lot of my friends see that $1200 as "extra" money. Some people may just need an incentive to visit Las Vegas, like no resort or parking fees, good room deals, safe feeling about getting on an airplane, etc. There's an opportunity for Vegas to market itself, if the corporate idiots will just get out of the way and do things like were done in the 1980's and earlier. Make people "feel" like they are valued and getting a good deal for their vacation. Little giveaways go a long ways.