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Not I. I don’t live in NY, much less in NYC.

Nor do I.

But if anyone deserves some sort of repayment, it should be the taxpayers, not the fans. If the state decided to tax all it citizens only to the confer a below market pricing benefit on Yankees fans, then that is the equivalent of stealing from non-Yankees fans taxpayers to subsidize Yankees fans taxpayers.

Subsidies are pernicious and should be resisted. But it is worse to try to fix one unjust subsidy with another than to simply let the first one stand. Of course it would be optimal if the states were not in the business of subsidizing private sports teams in the first place.

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