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Just do the classic developing country thing and charge non-french people significantly more. 2x the price if you live outside paris, 5x the price if you live o
by datadrivenangel 1y ago
Just do the classic developing country thing and charge non-french people significantly more. 2x the price if you live outside paris, 5x the price if you live outside of France, and 20x the price if you live outside the EU.
- orra 1y agoCharging EU citizens more than French citizens would be illegal discrimination under EU law. (It might be legal to charge local Parisians less.) For example see https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/12/ec-demands-end-to-portugals-discriminatory-rule-on-museum-entry/ https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/12/ec-demands-end-to-portugal...
- netsharc 1y agoI wonder if the Paris city hall can do a rebate program of "Dear Paris residents, mail in your ticket stub and we'll give you a partial refund" - this is a first draft of an idea, it's flawed because it would lead to opportunistic Parisians asking tourists for their ticket stubs, and then telling the city hall that they visited the Louvre 30 times last month.
- throw_a_grenade 1y agoNo, they can't, EU courts would strike that in a heartbeat. Some time ago Germans tried to tax foreign drivers on their roads, so they introduced toll, nominally for all, but also lowered the same amount another car-related tax that was paid only by Germans. EU bodies saw through the scheme just fine and now they're on hook for returning the toll money to anyone still keeping the invoice/receipt.
- nothercastle 1y agoSeems worthwhile, nobody will actually keep the receipt
- throw_a_grenade 1y agoHalf yes, probably discarded, but the other half are in company books, because those were accounted as costs of operations. Even then, yes, probably worth it for the time.
- 1718627440 1y agoThere are only charging Germans right now. They wanted to extend that to foreigners, so if you wouldn't lower the tax that pays for this right now, you would charge Germans double. Of course this is against the interest of other countries, which is why they prevented that, but it wasn't unfair or discrimination.
- 1718627440 1y agoWhat's wrong with what I stated?
- ngcc_hk 1y agoWhat is the difference? The key idea still work …
- orra 1y agoMy point is you can make things cheaper for locals. But local means local: it doesn't mean national.
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- soraminazuki 1y agoThere's a significant ethical issue involved here though. Museums in former colonial nations frequently contain artifacts that were, ironically, stolen from other countries, often through violent means. Charging people from these former colonies to view their own national treasures is deeply problematic.