@rezaaslan This piece by @EasterbrookG in @TheAtlantic summarizes the issues well. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/how-the-nfl-fleeces-taxpayers/309448/ …
Hold it. The #NFL receives tax exempt status from fed govt as a "not-for-profit business league" organization?!?! WTF???
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@rezaaslan Major sport organizations in the US receive anti-trust exempt status... MLB has been exempt since 1922... - 1 more reply
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#scam “@rezaaslan: Hold it. The#NFL receives tax exempt status from fed govt as a "not-for-profit business league" organization?!?! WTF???”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan and it supports domestic violence and animal abuse! a threefer!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan: Hold it. The#NFL receives tax exempt status from fed govt as a "not-for-profit business league" organization?!?! WTF???”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan Wait what?!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan yup time to change that rule and have them pay taxes.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan The NFL is tax-exempt but the teams pay taxes.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan exactly WTF?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan This should be the biggest scandal of them all!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan And cities spend millions of dollars building stadiums for them in the hopes that they will stay long term.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan So are they trying to say that profits go to the individual franchises and not to the governing body, er "NFL" in this case?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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My blood bpils over all this crap going on.
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