Don’t forget: The Tucson City Council will be hearing from angry citizens at the Tucson Convention Center tonight beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Most council meetings are pretty boring, but this one promises to be a real hoot. As we explained in this week’s Skinny, council members are considering nearly $18 million in new taxes on rental payments, utility bills and much, much more. The Arizona MultiHousing Association is busing in apartment dwellers from across the city and promising free box lunches to people who protest. And, of course, we’ll have the teabag crowd.
If you can’t make it, it’ll be carried live on Channel 12 on your Cox Cable system, and I’m gonna make an effort to liveblog it, although I can imagine any number of technical difficulties that could cause problems with that plan. Stop by later tonight and we’ll see how it’s going.
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2009.
Tuesday means it’s Japanese cooking night at the House of Red Star, which means Red Star is banished from the kitchen. On the chance that things go bad, two questions jump out at Red Star for Nintzel:
1) Why is the proposed renter tax such a big deal for Arizona Multihousing Association? Assuming the demand for rentals by renters is inelastic, can’t the tax and its administrative burden simply be passed on to renters? Is it that simple? What’s Arizona Multihousing Association’s angle?
2) Do not students living in UA dorms rent from UA? Are they (actually, their parental units back home) exempt from this rental tax?