Posted on 09/16/2014 12:59:51 PM PDT by C19fan
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) will introduce legislation aimed at eliminating the NFL's tax-exempt status, she announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
Cantwell's motivation for introducing the legislation is the league's continued inaction against the Washington Redskins name.
“The NFL needs to join the rest of Americans in the 21st century,” she said, according to The Washington Post. “It is about right and wrong.”
The press conference was called by the Native American coalition Change the Mascot, which has sent a letter to 31 NFL owners urging them to take action that could lead to the Redskins name being changed.
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thankfully no terrorist organizations are threatening our country and the borders are secure and millions of people have their healthplans and doctors back and taxes are low and bridges and roads are shovel ready for fixing.........
eff these criminal dems and their b.s. get to work for the American people.
I had no idea the NFL was tax-exempt. On what basis?
Did anybody show this women the recent ESPN poll where around 70% of respondents said they are not in favor of the Redskins changing their name?
where is Obama on this?
NFL shouldn’t have been tax exempt in the first damned place, it is a business, you know like GE....
Meaningless gesture.
Only the head office of the NFL has tax-exempt status. All the teams pay taxes.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/11/30/29twotakesspector
Send Lois an email for me.
I don’t give a fiddly-hoot if the redskins call me a Whiteskin.
GE... :) bad example...
I found a CNBC web site that said: "In fact, the NFL is actually tax-exempt, a status it gained in 1944. Often forgotten, the league was granted 501(c) 6 status in 1966, when it merged with the American Football League. But unlike charitable nonprofits, or 501 (c) 3 organizations, the 501(c) 6 designation means the NFL is a trade organization. This tax-exempt status does not apply to the league's 32 individually owned franchises."
Why?
This is a politically very smart move, as it will raise ticket prices which will endear her to about half the voting public. The other half>? Not so much.
More crybaby perpetually offended liberals having a hissy fit.
There are probably not a hand full of US senators who have not been guests in the owners suite at Redskins games, standing and hooting and hollering for the gasp, Redskins.
Cantwell may be one of them.
Never let a good racism charge go unused.
The NFL is tax Exempt?
I found a CNBC web site that said: “In fact, the NFL is actually tax-exempt, a status it gained in 1944. Often forgotten, the league was granted 501(c) 6 status in 1966, when it merged with the American Football League. But unlike charitable nonprofits, or 501 (c) 3 organizations, the 501(c) 6 designation means the NFL is a trade organization. This tax-exempt status does not apply to the league’s 32 individually owned franchises.”
Why?
The NFL claims that they are like a chamber of commerce and that the business and profit is only conducted in the franchises with the NFL proper not making any money. I haven’t researched it but I don’t think it is probably true.
My opinion is that they a bunch of tax exempt bazillionaires who feel like it is necessary to lecture me on what rights I need to give up. I think they should lose their tax exempt status but I will be honest and say that my opinion is based on their blatant attacks on my gun rights rather than actual fairness. College football is more fun to watch anyway.
Says the senator from Planned Parenthood.
Good idea. Why should it be tax exempt?
Washington owned slaves who were freed at his death. I demand that they change the name of the state.
Exactly!!
But Cantwell’s is not a good idea. The intent of her bill is not to remove the NFL’s tax-exempt status, it’s to get the Washington REDSKINS to bow to the tyranny of the Left.
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