HB2 Hurt North Carolina So Much It Generated Record Visitor Revenue For 2016

Huh. This is weird. The media constantly beat the gong that HB2, the so-called Bathroom Bill, would really hurt North Carolina economically. You had Progressive states implementing “travel bans” on the government dime (yet refusing to say what the bathroom policies were in government buildings in their states). But, hey, what’s this!

(WRAL) North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Anthony M. Copeland announced Monday that North Carolina tourism generated record visitor spending in 2016 with a total of $22.9 billion, a 4.3 percent increase from 2015.

“Nearly 50 million people from across the United States visited North Carolina destinations last year,” Copeland said. “The money they spent supported 218,340 jobs and more than 45,000 businesses.”

Tourism industry-supported employment topped 218,000 jobs to set another record for the state.

These are facts, not opinions. It’s quite apparent that most people really aren’t concerned with the gender confused being told that government cannot force private businesses to accommodate them, and that government cannot force women and girls to have their privacy invaded in their bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms by confused biological males.