Again, you show a lack of understanding.
The bulk of taxes are paid by people who earn an average wage. Richer people don’t pay the bulk of taxes, 1. because there aren’t many of them and
2. because they don’t pay their share of the tax burden. The rich have special arrangements to pay as little tax as possible. Negative gearing, trusts, offshore havens are obvious examples.
Because we have a thinking premier now, it is more likely that the prices for tickets will be as (or close to as) affordable as we get at Subiaco. I have no problem with a range of tickets going from affordable to premium (with exclusive opportunities such as boxes and special viewing areas), as long as families on an average wage can choose to go to a footy game as a reasonably priced option.
You seem to think that we should go the NFL route, where tickets can cost many hundreds of dollars, and normal people never go. In that case make ‘em pay thousands of dollars per ticket so that the stadium pays for itself.
I think you are making a number of false assumptions here.
Firstly, average wage earners will pay a premium for tickets if they are fans. Like gamers who pay thousands for a computer when you can buy one for $600. People not really wanting a computer may not be willing to pay even the $600, but this does not mean they have a right to one at what ever price they are willing to pay.
It isn't average wage earners that will be the ones not going to the footy, but those that do not really value the experience.
Secondly, people with money do not spend it just because they have it. You cannot sell a $1000 banger to someone for $10 000, just because they have $10 000.
If you sell $1000 AFL tickets to the new stadium, the average fan cannot go, and the rich fan will not go, and the stadium loses money, not makes it.
Thirdly, there is no price point at which no-one will say it's to much, it doesn't make it a high price, it just means they don't really value sport, which is fine. However, a good Eagles game will likely sell out to committed fans at a reasonably high price, so you can drop the price enough that the curious and the casual want to go, but they can only get seats at the expense of the fans. How likely is it that the Eagles will drop prices just to enable casuals and tourists and the curious to push out it's own fans?
The NFL also does not charge thousands for average seats to average games, their are plenty of reasonable prices available, they only charge a premium for limited high value games or seating.
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