Miles Smith
100:00 - 101:06
"could potentially have a detrimental impact on my business. I do understand that this tax is focused mainly on folks that are not locals in Cordova. Um, it is focused on excess, um, SIN items for this, the rest of the tax, and I will support this because I feel like at this point Cordova is desperately in need of a revenue increase. But I will say that, um, we cannot tax our way out of issues, and we need to stop taxing things and figure out a different way because businesses will not be able to function if people don't come because we price them out."
“could potentially have a detrimental impact on my business. I do understand that this tax is focused mainly on folks that are not locals in Cordova. Um, it is focused on excess, um, SIN items for this, the rest of the tax, and I will support this because I feel like at this point Cordova is desperately in need of a revenue increase. But I will say that, um, we cannot tax our way out of issues, and we need to stop taxing things and figure out a different way because businesses will not be able to function if people don't come because we price them out.”
- Speaker
- Miles Smith
- Timestamp
- 100:00 – 101:06
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Cordova
- Captured at
- August 5, 2026
From the transcript
Difficult for people to afford to come, um, could potentially have a detrimental impact on my business. I do understand that this tax is focused mainly on folks that are not locals in Cordova. Um, it is focused on excess, um, SIN items for this, the rest of the tax, and I will support this because I feel like at this point Cordova is desperately in need of a revenue increase. But I will say that, um, we cannot tax our way out of issues, and we need to stop taxing things and figure out a different way because businesses will not be able to function if people don't come because we price them out. People will not live here if they can't buy food because we price them out and we can't buy fuel to heat and run our businesses.
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