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| 2017-09-30 |
| [SultanKnish] An Army recruit starts off with a salary under $20,000. Thousands of active duty military personnel are on food stamps. Millions of veterans rely on them to feed their families and themselves. That’s how we treat the best of us. Here’s how we treat the worst of us. An NFL rookie’s minimum salary is $465,000. And the majority of NFL players are usually bankrupt a few years after retirement because they blew through most of their money. Dozens of NFL players are arrested every year on charges ranging from murder to rape to animal abuse. 2017 was a banner year for the NFL with three times as many arrests as last year. ...It’s no wonder that so many of the NFL’s millionaire scumbags are eager to join Colin Kaepernick’s protests against the justice system by degrading our anthem. It’s because they’re criminals. ...The only question is why are the rest of us subsidizing it? ...The NFL comes with a pass on property taxes (those are for little people) and taxes in general. Until 2015, the NFL was a non-profit. "Professional football leagues" was actually inserted into the Internal Revenue Code to provide a special non-profit status. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell got paid $44 million in one year. That made him the highest paid non-profit exec in the country. The entire NFL is an illegal trust. It’s a monopoly that was illegally legalized by Congress. That monopoly allows the NFL and its teams to cash in on television licensing and team gear. After the NFL uses its illegal monopoly to rip off broadcasters, ESPN rips off cable subscribers. ...The NFL is built on government taking money from people and giving it to the industry. Its leftward tilt isn’t an accident. It’s a calculated move. Who are the folks most likely to bail out an industry? They’re on the left. Not the right. If your monopoly is dying, it’s time to go left and hate America. Anthem bashing is popular with the left. And it’s very popular with the social justice bloggers who increasingly dominate sports journalism, and not just on ESPN. Hating America will score points with the left. It’ll buy the NFL more protectionism from the media and the 2020 Democrats. The only question is why do we need the NFL? Once upon a time there was a football free market. Multiple leagues competed with each other. And the NFL was just one of many. The NFL-AFL merger created a monster monopoly that has worked to crush any independent league through its control over broadcasting and venues. That's what happened with the United States Football League which won an anti-trust court case against the NFL, but was forced under anyway. ...Before the anthem protests, the NFL was just one of the corrupt legacies of Democrat rule. It’s a reminder of the fact that social justice politics, whether it’s Obama’s "You Didn’t Build That" or Huey Long’s "Share Our Wealth", is nothing more than organized thievery from the working class. But the NFL is no longer just a corrupt monopoly. Instead it’s becoming a radical anti-American organization that uses its taxpayer-subsidized stadiums and monopoly broadcasting rights to spread hatred toward this country and disrespect to the soldiers who fought and died for it. America could have tolerated the NFL’s corrupt thievery. But there’s no way Americans should be subsidizing this diseased leftover of Democrat corruption when it spews hate at the United States. It’s time for the NFL’s anti-trust exemption to go the way of Ma Bell. Break up the corrupt Democrat monopoly of the NFL and demolish the barriers to the formation of independent leagues by taking on the NFL, ESPN and its broadcasting partners in crime. It’s time for the NFL to take a knee and for the free market to rise. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #11 Everything that the Dems get control of goes bankrupt. Stay home, barbcue or make popcorn and pop in a great movie in the DVR for Sunday afternoon or watch an old silly B-rated SciFi movie with friends and family. That is the End of the NFL in your own world. |
| Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-09-30 22:00 |
| #10 Let's start with the lunacy that is ethanol and the price of corn. 1922 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more. Tetraethyl lead will be added to gas to make your automobile run better, more efficiently. 1973 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more. Tetraethyl lead removed from our gasoline to make your automobile engie burn cleaner and more efficiently. 1975 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more, but Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards will improve the average fuel economy of your automobile. 2006 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more, but we're adding ethanol due to the energy crisis. It will help your automobile run more efficiently and cleaner. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-30 18:02 |
| #9 Look, they won't even initiate a Grand Jury thingy for Hillary the Harridan, so do we think we will ever see this NFL gravy train come to an end? And why, then, is the NFL any different from any other outfit that gets either special tax breaks or subsidies? Get rid of them all. Let's start with the lunacy that is ethanol and the price of corn. |
| Posted by: Clem 2017-09-30 17:21 |
| #8 Some things take a bit longer. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-30 16:38 |
| #7 The NFL owners are mostly billionaire virtue signalers. They can afford to take a financial hit indefinitely. The real fun will begin when the player's share of the hit starts to really bite. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2017-09-30 12:33 |
| #6 the free market will be telling come next years NFL budgets |
| Posted by: 746 2017-09-30 12:05 |
| #5 Tax loopholes, not stock loopholes. The NFL is considered a non-profit or some nonsense like that. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-09-30 11:42 |
| #4 Trump should work with congress on the NFLs stock loopholes. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-09-30 11:42 |
| #3 ...Both of those are awesome ideas, and I'd love to see the Hall of Fame induction week ceremonies come off with no military support at all. I had a lot of fun the three years I marched in it (hard not to smile while standing behind a car carrying Roger Staubach, Tom Landry, and Don Meredith while they're good naturedly and slightly profanely arguing over who the better player was) but were I in the same place today, I'd at least register a protest myself about having to march in my country's uniform to honor people who don't give a rat's backside about what I'm supposed to be defending. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-30 10:43 |
| #2 Someone else also suggested prohibiting sale of NFL merchandise or products with the NFL logo on military exchanges and commissaries. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-30 09:51 |
| #1 One commenter writes: One way for Trump as Commander in Chief to take action against the N.F.L. (No Fans Left) is through executive order. He could pass an E.O. saying No active members of the military will participate in fly overs, Honor Guards or advertisement with the National Football League. If he took this tact I'm sure the police departments would also follow suit. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-30 08:09 |