My bet is that it will flow down to Mass., maybe not this year but certainly in the future.
Knowing alittle about govt. and big businesses, two ways to protect the bottom line - cut costs and increase revenues. Cutting costs, the real big costs, means cutting people and thats not politicaly acceptable in govt, so they go for increasing revenues. Slapping a $15 to $30 charge here and there can go along way, and, for the most part, the general public will moan and groan but generally go along with it.
Time will tell.
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