Roth was not being specific enough, so I will try and be. If we raised property taxes on hotel properties and passed the extra revenue generated on to rail, that would be preferable to the GET. I will agree with him there. And I agree the GET makes it harder to see how much the costs of good or services is being raised since the GET gets applied at every transaction stage. But that is why the state should have a sales tax instead, and a whole different argument. Bottom line like Ikaikia said, if a family would be paying 300 more a year in property tax, the only way the GET is worse is if they are expending $60,000 a year. Thats a lot.