Briefly, a luxury hotel gets to charge what it can to supply the service it offers. A city must charge a tax that hopefully covers the expenses, often those mandated by law and thus unable to be cut.
Also, a city cannot choose its residents. The poor are necessary as well as the rich for a city to function. The hotel? If you don't pay, you leave.
There are suggestions the hotelier makes that have some bearing; but the reality of how cities collect their taxes make most of these suggestions moot. I may address these realities in a later post.
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Date: 22/3/12 04:41 (UTC)Also, a city cannot choose its residents. The poor are necessary as well as the rich for a city to function. The hotel? If you don't pay, you leave.
There are suggestions the hotelier makes that have some bearing; but the reality of how cities collect their taxes make most of these suggestions moot. I may address these realities in a later post.