(Laura Empson of Cass Business School gave a particularly nice presentation on this at lunchtime Thursday, positing that useful ways of thinking about partnership might be as analogous to The Three Musketeers, to Henry V's famous "band of brothers" speech before the Battle of Agincourt, to a buccaneer pirate ship, or, at last, to "Gone With the Wind. [read post]

Table 1: Selected County and Municipal Rental Car Excise Taxes State Locality Car Rental Excise Tax  Funding Purpose Alaska Anchorage 8% City general fund Arizona Maricopa County (Phoenix) The greater of 3.25% or $2.50 per rental Glendale Stadium; youth & amateur sports Arizona Pima County (Tucson) $3.50 Kino Sports Complex Colorado Denver 7.25% Colorado Convention Center Georgia Atlanta 10% State Farm Arena Illinois Chicago 6% and 9% transaction tax (a) City general fund Indiana Marion… [read post]