Hotel taxes exist for legitimate reasons. This hasn't been a contentious issue for conventional hotels, ever. The industry has an unusually large impact on publ

Hotel taxes exist for legitimate reasons. This hasn't been a contentious issue for conventional hotels, ever. The industry has an unusually large impact on public infrastructure. Hotel guests use all the commons and public facilities of the city just the same as residents do, but they don't pay the taxes that residents do to fund those commons and facilities. The Hotel tax exists to help with this problem.