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Old 09-11-2015, 10:19 AM   #2995
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
So the anti-subsidy crowd is against a ticket tax? Even though that's pretty much a user fee? Nitwits.

(The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is also screwing this up.)
A ticket tax is not a user fee. It's not like without the ticket tax tickets would suddenly be X amount cheaper.

It's effectively a tax on the ticket seller, not the ticket buyer. This "ticket seller tax" allows a slice of future ticket revenues to essentially be securitized and borrowed against.
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