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 Commissioner’s 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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The bill which was written up (drafted) and being passed around the Senate, was written by Senator Booker (D). I’d give it zero chance of going through unless people go and put pressure on their GOP Senators.
Not One Dime of tax money should be spent to benefit the NFL.
The heck with tax breaks; time to return the “bread-and-circuses” workers to their ghettoes. Let them get back to dog-fighting, baby-mama-smacking, etc.
My boycott is meaningless because I never spent anything on them (and very little for their advertisers as part of general belt-tightening); if they lose younger people with discretionary dollars, they are in trouble. There is a reason they re-built stadiums with more corporate boxes and less for the little people; they have no need for them at game-time except as consumers for the advertisers and their NFL merchandise - NOT tickets.
How about a “luxury” tax, like they have on yachts.
The NFL league office is organized as a 501(c)(6), a part of the tax code that exempts thing like business leagues, chambers of commerce and trade associations.
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/18/263767372/the-nfl-big-business-with-big-tax-breaks
The Feds can always remove the tax deductible write businesses get with NFL Box seats, tickets, etc...
Furthermore, the taxpayer money they received to build stadiums should be reclaimed on the grounds that the NFL is now political.
Finally, boycott all companies that advertise with the NFL
The Denver Broncos is just one of 36 that have received a total of $3.2 billion in tax breaks since 2000. Time to recover the money from this Anti-Amercian trash.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/09/news/nfl-sports-stadiums-tax-breaks-taxpayers/index.html
I would love to see that.
Let’s tax the NFL out of existence!
Then, the tax dollars generated are used for more giveaways to those who don't pay taxes....
The NFL is no longer organized as a non-profit. They changed that in 2015. It doesn’t matter anyway because they don’t have any profits to report. The other tax breaks you describe apply to businesses that patronize the NFL, not the NFL itself.
Hopefully these Anti-American scum low life cockroaches will be boycotted and taxed out of existence.
I can tell you that we the citizens of Nashville/Davidson County plus all the tourists who come here gave that worthless Bud Adams millions. Yes, he got the land plus stadium built plus much more. I refuse to turn any game on much less even watch ESPN for scores. I have had it with these punks, most of our politicians, and every Muslim and illegal in this damn country. This is not the America I fought for, and; no, not one damn politician ever visited me or anyone I know who was shot up and/or wounded by shrapnel.
The bigger issue here is that these municipalities are using tax-exempt bonds for sh!t that isn’t important to the citizens of those cities. That’s not an NFL problem. It’s a problem with corrupt municipal governments.
I’m with you on that one. A boycott doesn’t require an act of Congress, and it’s a hell of a lot more effective.
It’s a problem with corrupt municipal governments.
But the NFL is shown to be just another elitist institution that has been taken over by Leftists intent on destruction of the U.S.
The NFL can survive this, but it will require some discipline, discipline that it currently lacks.
You cannot support an agenda that defines the U.S. as evil and expect those defined as evil to support you.
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“The bigger issue here is that these municipalities are using tax-exempt bonds for sh!t that isn’t important to the citizens of those cities.”
How many of these cities pour millions of taxpayer dollars into supporting infrastructure for sports teams while neighborhood roads are filled with potholes, public schools make do for decades with modular “temporary” classrooms, and public utilities (water & sewer systems) degrade for lack of maintenance?
It isn’t just tax breaks, it’s taxpayer funded stadiums that.benefit no one except the sports teams too these fiscal albatrosses hang on the taxpayers’ necks for decades.
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