Eh, if company wants to contribute a billion bucks to city coffers in order to put up a single billboard, that's surely worth the small amount of inconvenience.

Eh, if company wants to contribute a billion bucks to city coffers in order to put up a single billboard, that's surely worth the small amount of inconvenience. So I hope we established that there is a finite tax that's large enough to cover the negative externalities. Now we just need to figure out what finite amount of taxation is reasonable. > What's the tax value of "my city looks like a garish parade of bullshit I don't need"? Different municipalities (and their voters) can differ in how much they value money vs aesthetics. There's no one size fits all solution.