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Originally Posted by SebC
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.)
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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.