Tax on parking
I’m on the road today for a presentation, so I won’t be blogging much. I did, however, want to share an event from my weekend visit to Nashville that was, well, a little jolting.
The high school journalism conference was at the Opryland Hotel, a Gaylord Hotel property of some renown. It costs $10 to park in their lot regardless of how long you stay, but I was surprised with the attendant asked me for $10.93 upon exiting.
“You tax parking?” I asked the fellow.
“Yes sir,” he replied. “9.25 cents per dollar.”
It was a first for me, and, I suspect, yet another example of rampant consumer price gouging by those who (think they) can get away with it.
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November 15th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
Yes, the Gaylords. The football stadium at Oklahoma University has been “Memorial Stadium”, a reference to Oklahoma’s war dead … until the Gaylords (OPUBCO) made a sizeable donation. It then became the “Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium”.
The university president insists that it’s still a war memorial name.
They “can” get away with it.