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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    And who exactly is the NFL?
     
  2. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    No.
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  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    It is an association, which is taxed differently from corporations. The NFL's own revenues are legally separate from team revenues, even if teams share in them as a distribution.
     
  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  5. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  6. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    They were classified as a non-profit trade association, which isn't subject to income tax. But they voluntarily gave up their tax exemption a few years ago. The income the league itself brings in was diminimous enough that it wasn't worth the negative PR they constantly were taking over it. Plus, now they legally don't have to let everyone know how much they are paying Goodell, which I think was annoying the living hell out of him once a year when the figure would get released and people would gawk and comment about how overpaid they think he is.
     
  8. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

  9. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    You're right, I forgot how they gave up the tax break. As Matt Yglesias noted, if Trump really wanted to put the screws to NFL owners, he'd call for increasing the estate tax.
     
  10. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  11. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Why are there periods in the line breaks?
     
  12. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Tax should be on accumulated wealth. Soak the bastards who have billions in the bank. Gates and his ilk should be forking out more than a billion a year in personal tax.
     
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