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"public/private/'non-profit' partnership" taxpayer extortion ping
1 posted on 06/10/2014 8:29:25 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni

The talk here is the NFL is madder’n hell and embarrass this document got published. Kudos to the Red Star. A rare scoop.


2 posted on 06/10/2014 8:32:19 PM PDT by DManA
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what's next, first male child???
3 posted on 06/10/2014 8:35:05 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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So, don’t bid on the event.


4 posted on 06/10/2014 8:36:14 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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Houston told the Oilers to GTFO.


5 posted on 06/10/2014 8:38:11 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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"...the NFL wants free luxury hotel rooms, police escorts and tax exemption..."

Fixed it.

6 posted on 06/10/2014 8:40:35 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Police escorts? That’s nothing new. A lot of NFL players have had police escorts.


8 posted on 06/10/2014 8:40:58 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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Crony capitalism is crony capitalism whether it comes encased in a solar panel or wrapped in a pigskin.


10 posted on 06/10/2014 8:44:03 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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Correct! Tax dollars for a stadium for a league that makes billions of dollars just like PA built stadiums and let the owners off the hook. Amazing that the lowbrows who go to the games and pays out the ass to watch the millionaires play.


13 posted on 06/10/2014 8:53:59 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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The NFL can KMA.


14 posted on 06/10/2014 8:54:00 PM PDT by Paulie (Buy local, bank local, exert your influence locally; the left will fold like a cheap suit.)
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It took a veiled threat to move the team to Los Angeles

My theory is that not having a team in Los Angeles is the most profitable thing the NFL has done. Would any city be threatened into building a billionish dollar stadium when the team hints that it will move to Portland, Oregon? (Portland is the next largest metro area without a nearby NFL team after LA.)

18 posted on 06/10/2014 8:58:21 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To Hell with the NFL. Anti-Second Amendment entities don’t get my money or my eyeballs.


20 posted on 06/10/2014 9:01:40 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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Exemption from state, county and municipal taxes


23 posted on 06/10/2014 10:40:20 PM PDT by kcvl
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Roger Goodell made more than $44 million last year.


24 posted on 06/10/2014 10:41:22 PM PDT by kcvl
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An attorney with the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority said that state law protects the privacy of the city’s agreement with the league.


25 posted on 06/10/2014 10:42:27 PM PDT by kcvl
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Since 1997, the league’s teams have received more than $5 billion in taxpayer money for building and renovating stadiums and an antitrust exemption allows the NFL to operate as a monopoly. Its nonprofit status saves the league millions in taxes.

The league brings in roughly $7 billion a year from national television deals. Vikings owner Zygi Wilf is worth an estimated $1.3 billion.


26 posted on 06/10/2014 10:44:46 PM PDT by kcvl
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Guess I’ll just watch the World Cup or rugby. They don’t wear those damn pads and cripple each other.


28 posted on 06/10/2014 11:47:34 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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The Stench of Entitlement permeates today's NFL.
29 posted on 06/11/2014 3:00:26 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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