… sends her this article by Allen Sanderson, who proposes a sin tax on
college football games. Yes, I am advocating that we impose steep taxes on all intercollegiate football advertising, television broadcasts, logo merchandise sales, and gate receipts.
… This money could be set aside to provide funding for the ex-players to return to earn a degree, enter a graduate program, and/or start a small business.
Fans and universities benefit enormously from [the] exploitation [of players]. It is no stretch to treat this as in the same category as smoking, drinking, gorging ourselves on hot dogs and nachos, most of which we do in the stands or our family rooms while these exploited workers toil for our entertainment and the coach’s yacht. As citizens we should be above having our entertainment whims sated on the backs of these youngsters. Will it put an end to the cesspools at Ohio State, Oregon, Miami, USC, Auburn, LSU and …? No…
Nice, the way he calls them cesspools. UD‘s been doing that for years, but no one at those schools seems to mind that multiple people call them cesspools. Strange.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:37AM
Let’s see… we need to get the money to pay those taxes. I’m thinking student fees.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:50AM
Or we could pay the coach less than three million dollars.