Siloam Springs

[Mith242]

Bye bye tax revenues.

The wet-dry issue in Siloam is going look pretty foolish in a couple of years when this happens. Siloam Springs will have liquor-serving establishments 50 yards from its city limits, but will miss out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales-tax revenue every year.

[cocothief]

Yeah I feel the same way about the lottery and gambling as well. Especially since it's already in our area. But our state doesn't 'need' any of that potential tax money. I keep wondering what Arkansas could have done with all the money spend by people from Arkansas in Oklahoma, Missouri and Mississippi.

[Mith242]

In Siloam's case, they aren't even going to get the upside from having a dry law. Their community will still, by and large, be home to drinking establishments. The fact that they will all exist across the imaginary line makes little difference.

Siloam will be worse off than ANY community in that they will get the negative effects of alcohol consumption (if there are demonstrable negatives) WITHOUT getting any of the tax benefits.

[KJW]

Wish I had a link, but this is for Aporkalypse, primarily. Last year or the one before I mistakenly overinflated Siloam High's enrollment numbers.

There was a Demo-zette article a few months back saying how in two years Siloam High will be at the Arkansas 6A level, but in football given the dearth of 6A schools in NWA (Mountain Home will be the closest one, perhaps Van Buren High which may drop with Rogers Heritage coming in to 7A), Siloam High may have to play 7A football competition vs B'ville/F'ville/Rogers/S'dale and switch to 6A whenever playoff time occurs (however their playoff chances would be judged by that arrangement).