03/21/12 - Meals Tax Tea Party -

Today, the Rhode Island Hospitality Association teamed with the RI Tea Party and the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity to protest Governor Chafee’s proposal to raise the meals and beverage tax in the state to 10%. The protestors gathered at 1:00 p.m. in front of the State House and marched to Water Place Park, where they threw a symbolic bag of tea into the water at low tide (all made more symbolic, some might suggest, by the fact that environmental restrictions required the tea to be put into a plastic bag and connected to a 50′ rope so that it could be pulled out when the show was over).

For video of the speeches, click here.