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GOP Lawmaker Calls for End of NFL Tax Exemptions Following Anti-Anthem Protests (Video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/9/17 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 10/09/2017 6:18:28 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: Theoria

How about the National Association of Manufacturers or the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association?


21 posted on 10/09/2017 6:58:34 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: markomalley

The owners must be putting their fists through walls about now. Their players poked a real hornet’s nest.


22 posted on 10/09/2017 7:01:26 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: left that other site

>>No Taxpayer money for either sports or “The Arts”.<<

If properly researched, I believe the case could be made that taxpayer financial support has harmed both sports and the arts.


23 posted on 10/09/2017 7:07:04 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Oh, I agree!


24 posted on 10/09/2017 7:11:50 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: markomalley

Liz Wheeler is SO HOT!


25 posted on 10/09/2017 7:12:14 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And no more use of Eminent Domain for stadium construction.


26 posted on 10/09/2017 7:14:47 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
If properly researched, I believe the case could be made that taxpayer financial support has harmed both sports and the arts.

Research? We don't need no stinkin' "research".

Who needs research when there is Robert Maplethorp and his "Piss Christi?"

27 posted on 10/09/2017 7:16:53 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: Alberta's Child
"As of 2015 the NFL's corporate operations is no longer a non-profit corporation."

Please provide support for that statement.

28 posted on 10/09/2017 7:22:19 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Redbob

It’s in another post.

In any case, even before that, it didn’t mean what people are thinking it meant. It was purely an organizational structure. All the teams were and are taxed.


29 posted on 10/09/2017 8:01:29 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Redbob
I'm on a phone and I can't post a link until tomorrow, but if you check the NFL's Wikipedia entry you'll find a pretty detailed description of their business arrangement. They changed it in 2015 for PR reasons because they were getting a lot of grief over it from critics who have no idea how the NFL operates.

The NFL makes no profits anyway. All of the revenues are distributed to the 32 teams and reported on their tax returns.

30 posted on 10/09/2017 8:11:16 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: markomalley

bump


31 posted on 10/09/2017 8:28:52 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Alberta's Child
Well no reported profits after EXPENSES. Same as Washington taking a cut of every tax dollar collected from the states before they send money back to the states.

Ponzi Scheme.

32 posted on 10/09/2017 8:36:08 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Alberta's Child

“The NFL makes no profits anyway. All of the revenues are distributed to the 32 teams and reported on their tax returns.”

And that is the problem. The act of distributing revenues to an organization that pays employees that are not on field as players or coaches, creates a business atmosphere. Black’s Law Dictionary defines business as when the word embraces everything about which a person can be employed. That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit. The doing of a single act pertaining to a particular business will not be considered engaging in or carrying on the business; yet a series of such acts would be so considered. Labor, business, and work are not synonyms. Labor may be business, but it is not necessarily so; and business is not always labor. Making an agreement for the sale of a chattel is not within a prohibition of labor upon Sunday, though it is (if by a merchant in his calling) within a prohibition upon business.

Therefore, if there is a repetitive engagement of people that are compensated for, it is a business and is in line for corporate or business income tax.

rwood


33 posted on 10/09/2017 8:38:50 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: markomalley

That young dude has a political future!!! He be’s tawlkin gud stuff!!!


34 posted on 10/09/2017 8:47:24 PM PDT by SierraWasp (BLM = Black LIEs Matter!!! Used to be known as "Bureau of Land Management")
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To: markomalley

I don’t think they should have had tax exemptions at all. Do other major sports get exemptions too? Why? It is entertainment- they seem to make plenty of money to pay players millions.

I also do not think their stadiums should be paid with tax money.

They need to start paying their own way, with the tax exemption and sweet deal on stadiums many who don’t even follow football are paying for it anyway. That is nonsense.


35 posted on 10/09/2017 8:47:44 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: snarkytart

They have been losing fans and shooting themselves in the foot for a while. All of this was just the straw that broke the camel’s back with a large number of fans. My husband and many others quit watching last year, some we know quit before that.

Since this got stirred up, it just became obvious how little the NFL, from top to bottom respects this country. It also came out how little they care about their fans. They truly seemed to think they were invincible and could do as they pleased.


36 posted on 10/09/2017 8:52:48 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: jjotto

Those are sports organizations?

I think the differences should be clear. Sports teams provide entertainment. The others you named provide jobs, products, food. Pretty sure you would be hard pressed to find people making the salaries that the professional sports players make in manufacturing. I know for a fact there is not a cowboy alive that is paid like NFL players are paid.

It may be time to figure out the difference between want and need when deciding what to subsidize.

I have never been able to justify in my mind the salaries paid to athletes. What makes them worth so much? If the taxpayers weren’t paying a lot of the way for them through exemptions and money for stadiums they could not support the outrageous salaries.


37 posted on 10/09/2017 9:04:30 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Windflier

The owners are not blameless, they had so little respect for this country and their fans that they allowed this to get out of control. They could have nipped this in the bud, but they instead went along with it, even supported it.


38 posted on 10/09/2017 9:06:17 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: markomalley
I think the USFL won $3 dollars($1 but trebled damages) because of president Trump - largely seen then as tanking the league; however, he did win the case and NFL was found to be a monopoly.

There will be a wall and the NFL will lose its antitrust status.

39 posted on 10/09/2017 9:19:26 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: Tammy8
The owners are not blameless, they had so little respect for this country and their fans that they allowed this to get out of control.

Oh, I totally agree. Everyone makes choices. The owners chose poorly.

40 posted on 10/09/2017 11:24:53 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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