Shot in the Dark

Ryan Winkler’s First Step

Gary from Highland Park directed me to a quote in this piece about a bill that would make concert and sporting event tickets the personal property of the purchaser:

“I don’t see your bill as a free-market bill,” said Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley. “[It’s] the Legislature weighing in and picking winners and losers among competing industries, and that’s something we’re pretty bad at, but never can stop doing, it seems.”

Gary adds “”Isn’t the first step admitting you have a problem? Think he can stop his destructive habit?”

I’m just wondering why Winker’s wasting his time on this, and not out there personally creating more jerbs?

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2 responses to “Ryan Winkler’s First Step”

  1. thorleywinston Avatar
    thorleywinston

    If you sell someone a ticket to an event on the condition that only the purchaser can attend (say you want to make sure that only adults can attend) then that condition is part of the contract that the parties agree to when they engaged in the transaction. I’d probably be fine with a law that the condition has to be expressly made at the time of the transaction in order to be enforceable and in the absence of any such express condition; tickets are presumed to be transferable at the discretion of the purchaser. Other than that, it seems to me that this is not something that the government should be getting involved in.

  2. jdege Avatar
    jdege

    If we can get this through. how about a bill that makes airline tickets the personal property of the purchaser, and that allows them to be transferable to any person of the purchaser’s choosing?

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