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Originally posted by Jim727
Actually, M21 I am in favor of a free market. I didn't say that overpaid sports figures weren't raking in the kind of cash that motivates their owners to overpay them, I said I think it's a symptom of upside-down priorities. We're losing jobs overseas, losing education excellence, not funding proper enforcement of our borders, not maintaining a balanced national budget, not properly funding Veterans programs, not providing security for our seaports, hell, can't even operate our seaports ourselves, etc., etc., etc., but we can find the money to pay NBA players an average of over $4Mill per year. That's upside-down priorities in my book.
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I dont see how the two issues are even related.
The gov't does not pay a single athelete a million dollar salary(though they sure tax the living hell out of these guys), these are private or public corporations paying these wages. If you're saying that we should only pay a ballplayer 500k per so that the gov't can massively increase taxes on corporations in order to fund a variety of programs, i would state that before long we'll all be wondering why all the sports teams left america for India and Mexico too.
LOL.
