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Monday, October 08, 2007
Convention Center Issues
Some reasons to defeat the Convention Center expansion(ballot questions 2C and 2D)
Convention Center
The expansion to the convention center will be on the ballot this November as is the use of the merchants vender fees for financing the building. The City claims the vender fees are not a tax. Of course it’s a tax, a special tax to a specific group, the merchants of Pueblo. Three per cent of the total sales tax is supposed to be returned to the merchants for collecting the tax and for the extra bookwork required. Now, let’s look at some of the reasons the convention center expansion should not happen;