Cruise Town
Cruise Town
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Episode 2: The Whale and the Head Tax
24 minutes Posted Nov 13, 2019 at 3:48 am.
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Juneau has a new park featuring a life-size statue of a humpback whale breaching from a reflecting pool, complete with water works. The statue was privately funded, but the park where it lives was almost entirely paid for by a controversial per-person tax on cruise ship passengers. It was one of the first taxes of its kind and the cruise industry actually sued the city over it.