Posted on 10/15/2017 8:13:42 AM PDT by Enlightened1
While we glorify football players for their accomplishments on the field, they are not heroes. I recently visited with a real hero a young Army sergeant from my congressional district who still gets body tremors when he stands. Bombs bursting in the air exploded over his unit in Afghanistan, leaving shards of metal stuck in his skull.
When I entered his room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he proudly stood at full attention, brimming with nervous energy. I had come to thank him on behalf of a grateful nation, and the sergeant was as respectful as he was inspiring in his patriotism. Although he winced with pain, he would not take the meeting lying down.
We did not discuss his injury or diagnosis. He told me how proud he was of his wife, a teacher at the local high school. And how willing he was to go back to the fight wherever that star-spangled banner yet waves.
The teacher and the sergeant are the regular folks who make up my North Florida district, which boasts of more military bases than Starbucks, and more veterans than pelicans. These are the folks who do not understand why NFL players would disrespect our anthem or our flag or why the NFL Commissioner's office has embraced this unpatriotic conduct.
Taxpayers pay over 70 percent of the cost of stadiums. Our citizens pay more and more for tickets, and valuations of professional sports franchises have skyrocketed. Player compensation keeps growing. But the NFL Commissioners office can choose at any point to stop paying taxes altogether.
Our nation is increasingly diverse in thought, values, and background. Yet throughout our history, America has given proof through many nights that our flag is still here, and that freedom still reigns.
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Yes, end the tax breaks NOW.
What a ridiculous thing to fund the National Felons League anyways.
[Not One Dime of tax money should be spent to benefit the NFL.]
Agreed.
Die, NFL. Die
Die, NBA, Die.
Enough of their leftist politics.
Yes, end the tax breaks. Corruption!
The sooner the better.
All they have to do is make corporate tickets non-deductible and to over for the NFL. Might help to offset some of the tax cuts too, win win
Oh darn, I should have read your post first. I said the same thing about corporate tickets
OK — but I don’t know what any of that has to do with U.S. tax policy.
I suspect most of these cities are filled with a disproportionate number of people who aren’t taxpayers anyway, so it’s hard to keep a straight face when discussing the city’s spending priorities anyway.
We have to protect our "yutes".
The last thing you ever want is to have Congress making tax policy for certain expenses based on political considerations of the business in question. If Congress ever passed a law that made entertainment expenses tax deductible for one sports league but not another one, then they ought to disband Congress entirely.
They have already made 50% f meals non-deductible. Business just moved ticket purchase from entertainment to advertising and promotion.
NFL = Non Americans
The irony is that the NFL is the one professional league composed almost solely of US citizens. Baseball has Latino and Asian players, Basketball has European players, and Hockey has Canadian and European players.
The 50% rule is fine. But it would be preposterous to have Congress pass a law that says this percentage varies from one business to another ... 50% for this restaurant, 100% for that restaurant because it’s owners are politically connected, 0% for that restaurant because they show NFL games to the customers, etc.
The Asian players are the best example simply because of their cultural norms. A Japanese ball player in the U.S. would set himself on fire in the outfield before he would even dream of kneeling for the national anthem.
The salaries would not be as high without subsidies. They are nuts to complain. Almost like complaining they won lottery cash. Hope these players realize some small part of this soon.
Those are not citizens in any way.
how dare they expect working people to support corrupt multimillionaires?And while they're at it they can pay for everything else they scam us for...
Eff 'em.
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