Sometimes 2 too big a number to ignore

It is a pretty safe bet that increasing a tax on any given economic activity will lead to less of that activity. Thus, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s proposal to add 2 percentage points to the state’s meals tax seems pretty likely to cut back on the number of people who eat at the state’s restaurants.

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