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Old 08-19-2015, 04:48 PM   #2109
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Originally Posted by Frequitude View Post
No it is not. A $10 ticket tax is effectively $10/ticket the Flames will have to take out of their future pockets to repay the lender. It's not like it'll be $10 on top of what supply and demand will dictate the price to be. The price will be the price. The Flames will then have to forgoe $10 of that price and give it to someone else instead of themselves. Once again, it's not like the cost of tickets will be $10 cheaper if there were no ticket tax.

The burden of the ticket tax falls on the Flames. They are effectively borrowing money against their future cash flows.
Unless they do what Katz is doing, and raise ticket prices by 30-40%.
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