[T.Smith]

Let me see if I understand this correctly; somebody buys the tickets and pays a tax on them. Then, they turn around and resell the tickets and the city wants to tax them again. Am I correct, or do I not understand the process?

[Abathar]

Isn't Stubhub a ticket reseller? Doesn't he have to pay the initial tax up front, then sells the tickets at a premium (scalped) prices to buyers later. So if I read this right the initial tax isn't good enough, they want the scalpers to give them the 8% on top of the 8% they already received in the initial sale.

Greedy b@stards

[G.Mason]

" ... City Hall is preparing to sue ticket resellers who make a killing on the Internet but leave taxpayers in the lurch."

Perhaps voting these parasites out of office isn't enough.

Perhaps we should start hanging them in public. Tax free, of course.

[Abathar]

"On Tuesday, Burke made it clear he's not prepared to wait the years it will take for the hotel and ticket-broker lawsuits to make their way through the courts."

I thought the President used this logic with terrorist phonecalls and there are people who want to impeach him for it now...

[Plutarch]

They've never gone after this scofflaw:

[ManORight]

"We simply don't have the luxury in this economy to pass up any opportunity to collect what is due and owing to hard-pressed taxpayers," Burke said.

Burke cares about the "hard-pressed taxpayers" like Hillary cares about the children (that aren't aborted).

[cowtowney]

One has to think about what service the city provided in order to receive the income (tax). I don't know of one, but perhaps there is one. Usually, rational people think of taxing for a service (e.g. city builds the roads and taxpayer pays for them).

Interestingly, there is a requirement in Texas that the city not be able to recover more than the cost of the service. In other words, they can't provide a dumpster on your property for $600/month, if they can only rationalize a cost to them of $100/month. That would be a new tax, which can only be voted on.

[erics-chi town]

If Illinois handles this like they handled the online purchases of tobacco they will end up sending the buyers a bill. A co-worker recived a bill from Illinois and Cook county each for $800.00 for out of state online purchases of cigeretts.

I guess anyone who purchased anything online who lives in Illinois will eventualy recieve a bill. Good buy internet commerce.

[Junior]

Government -- The ultimate "protection" racket...

[toddlintown]

I don't know why, but as I clicked on the headline link, I already knew the story was going to be about Chicago.

[Mr. Blonde]

I wish I had come up with the idea for Ticketmaster or Tickets.com. They charge six bucks on top of the tax and shipping and handling. That's some good money if you can get it.