I was musing about hotel taxes just the other day. Someone chooses to come to your city, spends money on a hotel room and probably patronizes other local busine

I was musing about hotel taxes just the other day. Someone chooses to come to your city, spends money on a hotel room and probably patronizes other local businesses. So what does the typical city do? Do they say "Thank you for injecting much needed cash into our economy!" - of course not, they say "Hey sucker! Pay us another 15% for the privilege of occupying a hotel room in our fine city". As far as I can tell, they get away with it because "every city does this"