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.”
How about the National Association of Manufacturers or the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association?
The owners must be putting their fists through walls about now. Their players poked a real hornet’s nest.
>>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.
Oh, I agree!
Liz Wheeler is SO HOT!
And no more use of Eminent Domain for stadium construction.
Research? We don't need no stinkin' "research".
Who needs research when there is Robert Maplethorp and his "Piss Christi?"
Please provide support for that statement.
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.
The NFL makes no profits anyway. All of the revenues are distributed to the 32 teams and reported on their tax returns.
bump
Ponzi Scheme.
“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
That young dude has a political future!!! He be’s tawlkin gud stuff!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
There will be a wall and the NFL will lose its antitrust status.
Oh, I totally agree. Everyone makes choices. The owners chose poorly.
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