All right, troops, listen up! We're getting the Super Bowl in here, and millions and millions of dollars will be floating through for the taking. All you enterprising souls who want to get in on the gravy, take one step forward. Not so fast there, scalper scum!
Indianapolis is looking to crack down on ticket scalpers.
A new bill is working through the City-County Council of Indianapolis that would require people looking to sell tickets to buy an annual license.
The goal is to protect visitors from buying counterfeit tickets and to reduce the number of scalpers who gather for sporting events and concerts.
I have never been able to make the distinction that others apparently can between buying and selling sporting-event tickets and other kinds of run-of-the-mill capitalist activities. "Scalping" is free enterprise, pure and simple, operating on the ageless principles of supply and demand. Somebody wants something, somebody else has it, and they conclude a voluntary exchange of goods or services for cash. And, sorry, but the only way to prevent fraud such as the sale of counterfeit tickets is to define it and punish it.
