It is different than shutting down the streets for a Indycar race because in that case the streets are being repurposed in the public interest for a period and during that period nobody can commute on them for any price/bribe. Like the Reno Air Races or an air show closing the airport while in progress.How is this different from a city closing off streets to hold an Indycar race? Those streets are built with taxpayer money.
Or what about sports stadiums in major cities? Those are almost always built with taxpayer dollars. Priced tickets for a pro sports event lately?
Sport stadiums are like airports in that the land cost and civil engineering may be publicly funded but you still pay the team for your particular event at the facility, like you pay the FBO for the value they add to your visit to an airport. One can then ask why a publicly funded stadium can charge exorbitantly for parking, and I would agree with the argument that they should not.
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