"Higher meal, hotel taxes in works; Menino says city needs revenue" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | July 22, 2009
A longtime proponent of what is known as the local option tax, Mayor Thomas M. Menino is invoking a new authority to further tax hotels and restaurants, saying the city needs to find fresh sources of revenue during what has become the worst financial time in recent memory.
I know where you can find money. F*** them and their TAXES!!!
The mayor plans to meet with representatives of the hotel and restaurant industries today to discuss a proposed package that would raise the hotel tax another 2 percentage points, to a total of 14.45 percent in state and city taxes, and the meal tax another .75 percentage point, to 7 percent.
I'd sleep in the street and starve before I'd rent a room or eat at a restaurant in Boston.
Nah, I'd rather not go to the Sox game, buddy, thanks; I'm sure you can find someone else.
The new taxes, which would go into effect Oct. 1 if passed, are in addition to existing levies that are scheduled to increase next month as part of the state budget....
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