CITY AMUSEMENT TAX- Is Anybody Amused Yet?
	Good old Uncle Sam has done it again. The city of Chicago has imposed a 7% tax onto the consumers of tickets to events that happen with the Chicago City limits, calling it an amusement tax. And this tax has burdened ticket brokers to become a collection agency for the city.
	The new amusement tax has not gone without a fight. The Central States Ticket Broker Association has filled a suit against the city of Chicago claiming that the tax is an illegal double taxation. Although, the city claims that it is not because the tax is only from the face value to the amount that the ticket broker resells it for. In the case of Bulls playoff tickets that could be several hundred dollars just in tax.
	If it isn't bad enough that the government taxes it's people on just about anything and everything, now they tax people on having fun. And it seems that these taxes are springing up all around us. The worst part about it is that the chances of CSTBA beating the tax in court are a million to one. As the old saying goes, "You can't fight city hall."