[FreeAtlanta]

I don't mind the tax break for the NFL. I just think the rest of us should get the same tax break. Make it a level playing field and all that jazz.

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Examining NFL's tax-exempt status (espn)

[KarlInOhio]

I don't mind the tax break for the NFL.

The NFL is tax-free because it is a trade association formed by the teams. The teams give the league office (or the league office takes from the top of broadcast contracts and merchandising before distribution to the teams) only enough to run the office. It is an expense for the teams rather than a profit making organization on its own. This is unlike most other franchised companies where both the parent company and the franchises make money. The teams (with the possible exception of the Packers and their odd public stock ownership) are profit making companies subject to taxes.

[onyx]

Jane Skinners husband!

[2banana]

It is also a state enforce monopoly...

[elkfersupper]

I don't know what this guy does, but that seems like a lot of money for whatever it is.

It's a game and it's a game I don't even follow or care anything about.

The last football game I saw was in 1969 in High School.

That is a lot of money.

[central_va]

The NFL is the circuses part of the Bread and Circuses™ policy that FedGov™ started 4 years ago. Of course they get a tax break.

[newfreep]

Rules! Jane Skinner, ex-FOX reporterette, is Goodell's wife.

[all the best]

Nice money for supervising grown men playing a boys game.

[Moonman62]

No wonder Condi Rice wanted the job.

[TurboZamboni]

Doubtful urban Dems and Chamber of Communists will build a choo choo with station stops at your/i> "non profit" using public tax dollars.

[TurboZamboni]

Doubtful urban Dems and Chamber of Communists will build a choo choo with station stops at your/i> "non profit" using public tax dollars.