Just like those eeeevil companies that hold their profits offshore?
Seriously, though, the article is interesting.
Yep. They get ya coming and going.
I think it was a fine gesture for Brady to give Butler the truck, as a form of recognition for his contribution to the win. Tom Brady uses $14,000 dollars for a weekend vacation, it’s literally chump change to him. h8rs gotta h8, I suppose.
Were the tires deflated?
The early TV game shows had a GREAT SCHEME. Back in the pre-Reagan days, and especially the pre-Kennedy days, marginal tax rates were through the roof, up to 90%. So you win a car with a retail value of about $10,000, and would actually sell for about $8,000 and have a next-day trade-in value of maybe $6,000 (back then), and you find out that you’ll be hit with a $6,500 tax bill (for the car) that is all due that year.
Most people didn’t have the cash, so they’d give back the car (and get nothing...no requirement for other forms of compensation). Then the game show would hand out the car, yet again, as a BIG PRIZE, to the next sucker...and again...and again.
I believe that got outlawed in some way.
Considering the actual salary and bonuses Tom Brady earns, I doubt he is worried about the taxes on a $35k vehicle.
I’m still trying understand “detached and disinterested generosity”
Why would they give the Super Bowl MVP such a low end vehicle? A Corvette Z06 would have been more appropriate.
