Clipping:Taxing baseball exhibitions
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Date | Wednesday, August 11, 1869 |
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Text | The revenue authorities have decided that people who go into base ball as a means of making money must fork over to Uncle Sam the usual percentage on their receipts. In this it should be clearly understood that the government does not tax sport—does not impose any burden on recreation—but only on the show business. Ball clubs get up matches as exhibitions and charge a fee for the sight, and thus a ball company stands on the same level as any other company that entertains the public, so far as the tax gatherer can see. |
Source | New York Herald |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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