Posted on 10/09/2017 6:18:28 PM PDT by markomalley
Congressman Gaetz went on with Liz Wheeler on OANN to discuss ending the NFL tax breaks.
PNJ.com reported:
Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling on Congress to end the tax-exempt status of the NFL’s business office in the wake of controversy over players and team owners kneeling during the national anthem.
Gaetz, Northwest Florida’s Republican congressman, took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and said players have a constitutional right to free speech, but Americans shouldn’t subsidize a sport whose players act unpatriotically.
“When people kneel during our national anthem, they don’t simply indict the issue with which they have some particular grievance,” said Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach. “They indict our country, our service members, our first-responders, our founding fathers and the principles that made this country great.”
The Feds should have nothing to do with sport
I would settle for no more of my money to build THEIR stadiums.
Good idea!
No more taxpayers subsidies for stadiums for billionaire owners and their millionaire players.
The NFL hates America.
No Taxpayer money for either sports or “The Arts”.
And I am an ARTIST saying this.
they already do apparently, if they are tax exempt, and get any sort of funds for roads, stadiums etc.
As of 2015 the NFL's corporate operations is no longer a non-profit corporation.
Dang. Trump scalped them with one speech and a couple of tweets. He moved on and the NFL is reeling.
Go for it.
Umm. Wow.
Dump the NFL....
.... make them pay taxes
finally...someone is giving some attention to this.
Talk to your local officials about that...
From 2015:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/28/news/companies/nfl-tax-exempt-status/index.html
...”The owners have decided to eliminate the distraction associated with misunderstanding of the league office’s status, so the league office will in the future file returns as a taxable entity,” said Robert McNair, chairman of the league finance committee and owner of the Houston Texans...
Nuke these pompous bastards from orbit.
“Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling on Congress to end the tax-exempt status of the NFL’s business office”
OH HELL YES!!!!!
Why are they tax exempt in the first place?
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