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>>iambat+(OP)
The whole proposal is economically illiterate.

If billboards have negative externalities, then tax those; don't ban them.

>>eru+W3
What's the tax value of "my city looks like a garish parade of bullshit I don't need"?

>>MyOutf+o6
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.