Chicago Wants an Internet Tax

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Rolling Stones fanatics coughed up as much as $1,500 a ticket last month to watch Mick Jagger strut at the United Center.

They should have paid the city's 8 percent amusement tax -- $120 for a $1,500 ticket -- just like everyone else who buys from a broker. But if they bought their tickets on the Internet, Chicago taxpayers got zilch.

On Tuesday, Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel Wes Hanscom told a City Council panel that City Hall is preparing to sue ticket resellers who make a killing on the Internet but leave taxpayers in the lurch.

When you've got government pensions to pay for, yoa are forever hard up for cash.The city of Chicago is going to need some luck in federal court because they can't charge an internet tax it's a federal law.